gerund
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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
May the gerund be correctly used without any grammatical connection to the rest of the sentence?
From Practical Grammar and Composition by Wood, Thomas
“TiVoing,” meaning to record a show for later viewing, even became one of those generic gerunds, like “Xeroxing” or “Googling.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Nearly every other sentence contains pungent Anglo-Saxon nouns and gerunds.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2019
Muir and “WNT’s” reporters frequently eschew verbs, replacing them with gerunds in a kind of headline-style speed talk.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015
Though in the Texas twang, he drops the g’s from his gerunds.
From Time ● Sep. 8, 2011
I lacked even a basic knowledge of grammar, though I was learning, beginning with nouns and moving on to prepositions and gerunds.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Parts of Speech - Middle School
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