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
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
The other indicates in the verb “to be” also the connection of persons with the infinitive and gerund, and is therefore of the nature of a possessive.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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