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Example sentences for: gerund
How can you use “gerund” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
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).
In opting for the gerunds, one often saves a syllable or more, but the specific, continuous action of a gerund may not be so attractive to a society fuzzily focused on process.
The numbers in the above sentence indicate the beginning of each phrase and subordinate clause-- (1) adverb clause: “When people who swing want to see what's happening” modifies the verb try in the main clause; (2) adjective clause: “who swing” modifies the noun people ; (3) infinitive phrase: “to see what's happening” acts as the direct object of the verb want ; (4) noun clause: “what's happening” acts as the direct objective of the infinitive “to see”; (5) gerund phrase: “attending parties given by hipsters” acts as the direct object of the verb try ; (6) participial phrase: “given by hipster” modifies the noun parties ; (7) perpositional phrase: “by hipsters” modifies the passive participle given . In subsequent sentences I shall provide numbers but leave the reader to identify the structures, which will appear in varying orders, so as to avoide cluttering the discussion with labyrinthine explanations like this one.
In both her Cecilia (1782) and Diary (1787), we see the verb functioning as a gerund.
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