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 clause in the constitution which pledged defiance to The Roman and guaranteed protection on the gerund and gerundive was exceedingly popular.

From The Varmint by Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo