Cooking is fun. What part of speech cooking?

In the sentence "Cooking is fun", the word "cooking" is a gerund.

Here's why:

* Gerunds are words formed from verbs but function as nouns. They usually end in "-ing".

* In this sentence, "cooking" is the subject of the sentence, and it represents the act of cooking.

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