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gerund

[jer-uhnd] / ˈdʒɛr ənd /


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He is not the virtuoso of supines and gerundives.

From Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay by Morley, John

Participles in this construction correspond with the Latin gerund, and are sometimes called gerundives.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold




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