gerund
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Dink Stover, later to win fame at Yale, carried his whole Latin class by signalling with a pair of mobile ears whenever The Roman, their teacher, asked his favorite question, "Gerund or gerundive?"
From Time Magazine Archive
For the Gerundive as the equivalent of the Gerund, see � 339, 1.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
I hear the Gift of God coming up the stairs, and I've neglected to look up the Future Periphrastic Conjugation and that ticklish difference between the Gerund and the Gerundive, which is vital.
From August First by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
The Accusative of the Gerund is used only with Prepositions, chiefly ad and in to denote purpose; as,— homō ad agendum nātus est, man is born for action.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
The Latin Gerund differs from a participle, and the English Gerundive differs from a participial noun.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
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