gerund

Example Sentences

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Yglesias named his Substack “Slow Boring,” after a 1919 lecture by the German sociologist Max Weber titled “Politics as a Vocation,” wherein “boring” is not an adjective of dullness but a gerund of diligence.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023

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

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

When necessity is signified, the gerund in dum is used without a preposition, the verb est being added. 

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John