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
Instead, Wilson and Nabokov clashed over a gerund.
From Slate • Dec. 20, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
