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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:

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.
In both her Cecilia (1782) and Diary (1787), we see the verb functioning as a gerund.
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).
was obviously derived directly from the - nd marker of the active gerund in Latin, which suggests the therapist (active agent) rather than the patient.
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.”