gerund

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 remaining tenses of the optative, subjunctive, gerund, and infinitive are formed in the same way and with the same particles as are used for each in the first conjugation.

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear

“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

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

And English verb forms, like past participles, gerunds and infinitives, can be difficult to master, since Chinese verbs are unchanging.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012

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