gerund
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈdʒɛrənd/
- Specialized
- It's when a gerund is used as a subject that sentences often go astray.
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Watch on YouTubeWe can string those terms together because we have the verb, you know, to be turned into a gerund right being.
- We can string those terms together because we have the verb, you know, to be turned into a gerund right being.
- A step unstitched from stepping, IE gerund cancelled.
Examples
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And the object of the preposition would be a noun, a pronoun, a gerund...
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All of those gerunds apply to teachers as well as students.
Blog text (27) -
Come over here and I'll tell you about gerunds.
Fiction book (1994) -
Let's try another gerund with a perfectly good noun counterpart.
Blog text (1) -
So anyway, when a gerund leaves verbhood to become a noun, what verbiness does it retain?
Blog text (1) -
He likes gerunds.
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Now that I think of it, gerunds used later in the sentence (same with participles) don't much bother me.
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Each issue was individually coded, collapsed into categories, grouped into themes, and labeled using active words (gerunds).
Academic text (2015) -
Why use a verbal rather than a noun? (Most gerunds have counterpart nouns, after all—"knowing" has "knowledge.")
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Swimming is my favorite activity, and I practice the gerund every day.
Synonyms
1
6.8
A noun made from a verb that names an action or process
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gerund comes from the old Latin word gerundium, from the root gerere meaning 'to do'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a gerund as the 'doing' form of a verb used like a noun, as in running or swimming.