I think your example is actually correct. Eating CAN be a noun, but in your example it is a present participle, a type of verb. It would be a noun if eating was the subject, ie: “eating is fun,” where it would be a gerund. teacherblog.ef.com/grammar-recap-intro-to-gerunds…
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