gerund
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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
A substantive used with the gerund should always be in the possessive case.
From Practical Grammar and Composition by Wood, Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing gerund
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Parts of Speech - Middle School
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