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Example sentences for: gerund

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These are: prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, infinitive phrase, adverb clause, adjective clause, and noun clause.
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.
was obviously derived directly from the - nd marker of the active gerund in Latin, which suggests the therapist (active agent) rather than the patient.
Mr. Delaney is a victim of the confusion so often experienced by Latin students between the gerund, which is a neuter noun, active in meaning, and the gerundive, which is an adjective of similar form, but passive in meaning.
' This 19th-century neologism was obviously derived directly from the -nd marker of the active gerund in Latin, which suggests the therapist (active agent) rather than the patient (the recipient, the one the treatment acts upon).