gerund
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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
Once maliciously, when Fatty Harris was on his feet, The Roman asked: "Top of page, fifth word, gerund or gerundive?"
From The Varmint by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger
“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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