gerund
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His intentional use of a gerund in the title allows “entertaining” to be read as both doing a thing and being a thing.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
The “being” in “being with my students” is a gerund and gets the possessive pronoun “my.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2020
First off, nice possessive before a gerund, Jordan!
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 6, 2020
Instead, Wilson and Nabokov clashed over a gerund.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2016
Exception: When the gerund phrase denotes a general action, it may be used without grammatical connection to the sentence; as, In traveling, good drinking water is essential.
From Practical Grammar and Composition by Thomas Wood
“TiVoing,” meaning to record a show for later viewing, even became one of those generic gerunds, like “Xeroxing” or “Googling.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Nearly every other sentence contains pungent Anglo-Saxon nouns and gerunds.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2019
Muir and “WNT’s” reporters frequently eschew verbs, replacing them with gerunds in a kind of headline-style speed talk.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015
Though in the Texas twang, he drops the g’s from his gerunds.
From Time ● Sep. 8, 2011
In fact, gerunds with unmarked subjects were the historically earlier form, have long been used by the language’s best writers, and are perfectly idiomatic.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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