gerund

How To Use gerund In A Sentence

• They were copies of ‘Anglice Reddenda’, a very nice example of a gerundive: ‘Things to be translated into English’.
• In the sentence 'Everyone enjoyed Tyler's singing', the word 'singing' is a gerund.
• To shift the discussion just a bit, whether or not we say present participles and gerunds should be differentiated as distinct parts of speech, it still seems to me that except for in cases of a present participle in the slot of attributive adjective (ex/The steering wheel of my car is blue) gerunds and present participles take objects (I like driving my car). G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT
• The gerundive is the name given to the future passive participle (§374. d) when the participle approaches the meaning of a verbal noun and is translated like a gerund. Latin for Beginners
• The same can be said of his frequent use of progressive verbs (gerunds).
• If the gerund is a noun, then it must take a genitive possessor, because that’s how nouns work. The prescriptivists’ untying of this Gordian Knot is flawed « Motivated Grammar
• the gerundial suffix `-ing'
• That is not the case for alternating current, a subentry under alternate, or the array to be found under pass, which includes in passing (participle/gerund), make a pass at (noun), pass by (verb), passed pawn (adjective/past participle). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 3
• A substantive in the ablative absolute for no known reason very seldom denotes a person or thing elsewhere mentioned in the same clause, but the conditional applies through the gerundive which is defined as a conditional anyway. Languagehat.com: POLYGLATT.
• Where a gerund is a noun formed from a verb usually by adding ‘ing’ to the ending. The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”