Will give read the sentences. alaskan brown bears are known to be fierce and protective parents. encountering a bear and its cub could be dangerous, and hikers should be particularly cautious. which phrase is a gerund phrase? alaskan brown bears and protective parents encountering a bear particularly cautious

Aman lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. in the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.