gerund

Example Sentences

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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

Note.—In other instances than those in which clearness is involved many good writers use the objective case with the gerund.

From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland