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.

His intentional use of a gerund in the title allows “entertaining” to be read as both doing a thing and being a thing.

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.

The “being” in “being with my students” is a gerund and gets the possessive pronoun “my.”

Meanwhile, the gerund form of a verb the British use describes Trump’s frequent stance toward allies.