gerund

Example Sentences

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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

It’s also one of the activities Koenig recommends for parents to introduce their kids to “musiking,” her preferred gerund for describing the act of playing with melody, rhythm and movement.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 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

Those who could not rise to his lofty level despised him because he respected the gerund, and also said were where they said was, and there are, where usage made it they is.

From The Bondboy by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)