How To Use Gerund In A Sentence
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They were copies of ‘Anglice Reddenda’, a very nice example of a gerundive: ‘Things to be translated into English’.
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In the sentence 'Everyone enjoyed Tyler's singing', the word 'singing' is a gerund.
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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
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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
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The same can be said of his frequent use of progressive verbs (gerunds).
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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
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the gerundial suffix `-ing'
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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
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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.
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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”
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He also advises that one should use the active instead of the passive voice and gerunds instead of noun constructions.
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Because I have been using English naturally for the best part of sixty years I have stopped thinking about the construction of sentences (gerunds, subjunctives, conjunctions and prepositions, and all that).
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The distinction between a participle and a gerund affects the case of a preceding pronoun.
Times, Sunday Times
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The verbs tenses are organized into four ‘systems’ (plus gerunds and infinitives, along with such creatures as intensives/frequentives, desideratives, causatives, and benedictives derived from more basic forms).
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I once learned that you should put possessives before gerunds; that ‘rule’ is sometimes awkward and pointless, but maybe it has something going for it here.
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She claims that while a gerund has certain trappings of a verb, it is actually a noun.
2008 February « Motivated Grammar
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The case studies investigated include the alternation between synthetic and analytic comparatives, between the s-genitive and the of-genitive, between gerundial and infinitival complementation, particle placement, and future marker choice in a number of corpora sampling different spoken registers and geographical varieties of English.
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In the pre-intermediate grammar reference section, the term gerund is used unapologetically, and the student is advised “You can use a dictionary to check whether verbs are followed by an infinitive with to or a gerund” (p. 141).
G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT
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What is more, even when this distinction has been drawn, the denotations of the gerundive phrases often remain ambiguous, especially when the verbs whose nominalizations appear in these phrases are causatives.
Action
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I said all of the above emphasised with many gerundives of the vernacular terms for pundendum.
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The sentence begins with what is traditionally known as an absolutive clausal adjunct - a gerund-participial clause functioning as an adjunct in clause structure.
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I never understood, then or now, what the gerundial “the Crying of” meant.
The Crying of Area Code 212 - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
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The gerundive is a verbal adjective and must be used instead of gerund + object, excepting in the genitive and in the ablative without a preposition.
Latin for Beginners
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A gerund is a present participle (verb form) that functions as a noun.
Presente Progresiva?
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As the word gerund is variously used, we first define it.
Participle and Gerund.
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Incidentally, when looking to see whether I really meant gerund, I encountered ‘hebdomadal’ - occurring every seven days.
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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
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Why should the distinction between a participle and a gerund matter?
Times, Sunday Times
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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]
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First, a noun form of the verb, i.e. gerund or agentive noun, is combined with some other word to make a compound word.
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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,
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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
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The distinction between a participle and a gerund affects the case of a preceding pronoun.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Gerund and the Gerundive are used, in the oblique cases, in many of the constructions of nouns.
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The gerundial inf. with tō expresses purpose, defines a noun or adjective, or, with the verb be, expresses duty or necessity passively; cf.
Beowulf
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Why should the distinction between a participle and a gerund matter?
Times, Sunday Times
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This is the gerundial infinitive after an adjective: comp.
Milton's Comus
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The pedestal pieces that were presented in pairs or trios in the gallery's main room have sensory gerund titles: Listening, Watching, Breathing.
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Personally, I like the sound of that: an active process, implied by the present participle, or indeed by the gerundive.
Archive 2007-02-01
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‘Othering’, a favourite gerund in current academic-literary discussion, has yet to enter the dictionaries, but it shouldn't have long to wait.
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_Fut. _ amātum īrī, _to be about _Gerundive. _ amandus, _to be to be loved_. loved_, _deserving to be loved.
New Latin Grammar
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The Turkish sentence has an economy of words and an elegance which are due to the language being agglutinative, using participles, gerundives, and gerunds.
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Then the infinitive must be rendered "by killing thee" -- a kind of gerundive use.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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I think I agree with you, Rick, that the gerund in a sentence like “I heard him singing” functions like a predicative adjective, much like “nude” in “I saw the protesters nude” or “happy” in “Cookies make me happy.”
(Almost) Zero Tolerance, and linearly separable blogrolls « Motivated Grammar
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The writer describes one press conference: ‘During this 35-minute briefing the Secretary will use ‘kill’ nine times in various tenses and gerunds.’
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Regarding your proposed solution to my gerundial problem to wit, “I have nothing against the promoting of their agenda by homosexuals, or by any other group, through normal democratic means”: It is so obvious that of course I considered it.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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The issue of gerundive subjects comes up in a sentence like (3), where the question becomes whether me or my is the better choice:
The prescriptivists’ untying of this Gordian Knot is flawed « Motivated Grammar
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The gerundial inf. with tô expresses purpose, defines a noun or adjective, or, with the verb be, expresses duty or necessity passively; cf.
Beowulf
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A walking stick is a stick that walks, and the phrase might occur as a metaphorical description of a stiffly behaved person: a walking-stick or walkingstick is a stick for walking; the difference may sometimes be important, and consistency may be held to require that all compounds with gerunds should be hyphened or made into single words.
Hyphens.
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The sentence begins with what is traditionally known as an absolutive clausal adjunct - a gerund-participial clause functioning as an adjunct in clause structure.
