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gerund

noun as in verb

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Example Sentences

Well, if you have, how are you going to spot the gerund and the gerundive?

"Gerund, sir," said the Coffee-colored Angel with more conviction.

She could hardly wait to take off her coat when she reached her room in Mrs. Gerund's lodging-house.

Usually the phrase is used like an adjective; occasionally it is used like a noun (sometimes called the gerund phrase).

The prepositional and infinitive phrases may have all three uses; the participial phrase has two—adjective and noun (gerund).

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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