gerund

How To Use gerund In A Sentence

• Personally, I like the sound of that: an active process, implied by the present participle, or indeed by the gerundive. Archive 2007-02-01
• In office it is like the second kind of participles, described in Lesson 37, and from many grammarians has received the same name -- some calling both _gerunds_, and others calling both _infinitives_. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
• Why should the distinction between a participle and a gerund matter? Times, Sunday Times
• One suggestion I would make is that the sense of ouai doesn't seem judgmental, as "reckoning" would imply that there will be a reckoning upon you (and there's no indication that the interjection is present progressive or gerundial), but purely interjectory along the lines of "poor you. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• First, a noun form of the verb, i.e. gerund or agentive noun, is combined with some other word to make a compound word.
• Recall the fictional judge objecting to splitting in court, in one of the Rumpole stories; he used an accusative in a gerund object, even for a pronoun,
• Remember that a gerund is a present participle of a verb (the - ing form) that is being treated like a noun: 2008 February « Motivated Grammar
• The distinction between a participle and a gerund affects the case of a preceding pronoun. Times, Sunday Times
• The Gerund and the Gerundive are used, in the oblique cases, in many of the constructions of nouns.
• The gerundial inf. with tō expresses purpose, defines a noun or adjective, or, with the verb be, expresses duty or necessity passively; cf. Beowulf