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

Instead, Wilson and Nabokov clashed over a gerund.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2016

When the to ceased in the twelfth century to be a distinctive mark of the dative infinitive or gerund, for was introduced to make the writer's intention clear.

From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly