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Example sentences for: gerund

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And if students are slipping structural cogs, we need a common language to communicate these problems: “John, you should use the possessive form before the gerund”, “Mary, try combining these two sentences by using an appositive.”
Is aggression the same as aggressiveness , or, on the other side of the spectrum, is passivity the same as passiveness ? The first is more the state, the second more the behaviour--but how about scarcity and scarceness ? One runs into the same problem with the - ing gerund versus the - ation nouns: which sounds better, implementing or implementation, ratifying or ratification?
That is not the case for alternating current , a subentry under alternate , or the array to be found under pass , which includes in passing (participle/gerund), make a pass at (noun), pass by (verb), passed pawn (adjective/past participle).
An author may omit letters, perhaps to show clipped gerund forms (singin', goin', whistlin') , to indicate dropped hs ('ello, 'adn't, 'ome) , or lost final ds (husban', tol') .
In both her Cecilia (1782) and Diary (1787), we see the verb functioning as a gerund.