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
He pumped the beat, a Ugandan jive, and after shouting the gerund a few more times, he finally came to its object: “Rep-re-sen-ting UUUUUUUUUU-gan-da!”
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2016
Note.—In other instances than those in which clearness is involved many good writers use the objective case with the gerund.
From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland
“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
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
And English verb forms, like past participles, gerunds and infinitives, can be difficult to master, since Chinese verbs are unchanging.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
Though in the Texas twang, he drops the g’s from his gerunds.
From Time ● Sep. 8, 2011
I lacked even a basic knowledge of grammar, though I was learning, beginning with nouns and moving on to prepositions and gerunds.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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