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Gerund

noun
1.
A noun formed from a verb (such as the '-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun).



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"Gerund" Quotes from Famous Books



... the genitive of the gerund. It modifies facultas. The gerund corresponds to the English verbal ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... much at Temple Grove? Let others answer for themselves. Acquaintance with the classics was the staple of a liberal education in those times. Temple Grove was the ATRIUM to Eton, and gerund-grinding was its RAISON D'ETRE. Before I was nine years old I daresay I could repeat - parrot, that is - several hundreds of lines of the AEneid. This, and some elementary arithmetic, geography, ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke


Words linked to "Gerund" :   gerundial, deverbal noun, verbal noun


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