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Gerund   Listen
noun
Gerund  n.  (Lat. Gram.)
1.
A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle.
2.
In Modern English, the -ing form of a verb, when functioning as a noun; as, running is good for the heart.
3.
(AS. Gram.) A verbal noun ending in -e, preceded by to and usually denoting purpose or end; called also the dative infinitive; as, "Ic haebbe mete tô etanne" (I have meat to eat.).





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"Gerund" Quotes from Famous Books



... indications of advancement was an attack upon the style of popular preaching, which was now in a state of scandalous degradation. The assailant was Isia (1703-1781), a Jesuit, whose "History of Friar Gerund" is a satirical romance, slightly resembling Don Quixote in its plan, describing one of those bombastic orators of the age. It was from the first successful in its object of destroying the evil at which it aimed, and preachers of the class of Friar Gerund ...
— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta
... schoolmaster is not equal to much at present,—while the unexpress, for good or for evil, is so busy with a poor little fellow! Other departments of schooling had been infinitely more productive, for our young friend, than the gerund-grinding one. A voracious reader I believe he all along was,—had "read the whole Edinburgh Review" in these boyish years, and out of the circulating libraries one knows not what cartloads; wading like Ulysses towards his palace "through infinite dung." A voracious ...
— The Life of John Sterling • Thomas Carlyle
... is in the Infinitive Mood, Gerund, or Imperative Mood,[78] the Conjunctive Pronoun must follow, and is joined to the verb to form one ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... the genitive of the gerund. It modifies facultas. The gerund corresponds to the English verbal ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... pedagogues, preceptors, tutors, governors, gerund-grinders, and bear-leaders to view themselves in, ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne


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