gerund
Example Sentences
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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
The negative present is voinu and the gerund in Do is voite.
From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
