What part of speech is commuting?

Commuting can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. commuting is a verb, gerund of commute (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does commuting mean?

Definitions

Adjective

commuting - Causing, or involved in commutation.

Verb

commute - travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home
commute - exchange a penalty for a less severe one
commute - exchange positions without a change in value; "These operators commute with each other"
commute - exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares"
commute - change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word"

Noun

commuting - the travel of a commuter

Examples of commuting

#   Sentence  
1. verb I am commuting to university.
2. verb Since you do a lot of commuting, it stands to reason that using a smaller car would save you money at the pump.
3. verb I spend a lot of money commuting.
4. verb With the gas prices the way they are now, many people have started commuting by bus.
5. verb By the time the towering Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 13 crew left the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, thundering into the skies on April 11, 1970, traveling to the moon seemed about as interesting to the general public as commuting to work.
6. verb I spend a lot of time commuting.
7. verb These operators commute with each other.
8. noun There is standing room only on the high-speed commute.
Sentence  
verb
I am commuting to university.
Since you do a lot of commuting, it stands to reason that using a smaller car would save you money at the pump.
I spend a lot of money commuting.
With the gas prices the way they are now, many people have started commuting by bus.
By the time the towering Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 13 crew left the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, thundering into the skies on April 11, 1970, traveling to the moon seemed about as interesting to the general public as commuting to work.
I spend a lot of time commuting.
These operators commute with each other.
noun
There is standing room only on the high-speed commute.

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