
	Where results make sense

Topic: Gerund

Related Topics

Participle

In the News (Fri 10 Jul 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Gerunds
		gerund: a noun that is made by adding -ing to the end of a verb.
		It is important to understand that gerunds function as nouns, but are derived from verbs.
		Gerunds may cause a bit of confusion because they look exactly like present participles; for example, if you see the word running all by itself, there's no way you could know whether it's a gerund or a present participle.
	www.testmagic.com /grammar/gerunds.htm (158 words)

	The Gerund. Fowler, H. W. 1908. The King's English
		So the mistake (that the gerund may have a subject not marked by the possessive) is eagerly applied to obviating the inconvenience (that long gerund subjects must be avoided).
		Noticing the bold use of the strict gerund in the first, we conclude that the author is a sound gerundite, faithful in spite of all temptations; but a few pages later comes the needless relapse into fused participle.
		When the infinitive or gerund is attached to a noun, defining or answering the question what (hope, andc.) about it, it is almost always better to use the gerund with of; not quite always, however; for instance, an intention to return, usually, and a tendency to think always.
	www.bartleby.com /116/212.html (5264 words)

	Gerund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In linguistics, a gerund is a kind of verbal noun that exists in some languages.
		Gerunds preceded by an object or a genitive
		A sentence with gerund phrase serving as a direct object can be recast in the passive voice, such that the gerund phrase becomes the subject, while a superficially similar sentence with a participle cannot undergo this transformation:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gerund (1098 words)

	Urban Dictionary: gerund
		gerund noun adjective verb anti-crime vaccine infinitive participial phrase adverb amigo colleague gerand gerrand homie tookie
		The gerund is the verb form ending in -ing which acts as a noun.
		The one word riposte "Gerund" by some self-satisfyingly smug pedant indicates an abuse in its usage.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=gerund (147 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Gerund
		In linguistics, a gerund is a kind of verbal noun.
		It behaves as a verb within a clause (so that, for example, it may be modified by an adverb or have an object), but the clause as a whole (sometimes consisting only of one word, the gerund) acts as a noun within the larger sentence.
		In English, gerunds are formed by adding -ing to the end of a verb (but not all words formed that way are gerunds; speaking is either a gerund or a present participle depending on how it is used).
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Gerund (1106 words)

	Participle and Gerund. Fowler, H. W. 1908. The King's English
		Any of these except written, about to write, about to be written, may be a gerund also; but while the participle is an adjective, the gerund is a noun, differing from other nouns in retaining its power (if the active gerund of a transitive verb) of directly governing another noun.
		The participle is an adjective, and should be in agreement with a noun or pronoun; the gerund is a noun, of which it should be possible to say clearly whether, and why, it is in the subjective, objective, or possessive case, as we can of other nouns.
		We are quite aware, however, that in the first place a language does not remodel itself to suit the grammarian's fancy for neat classification; that secondly the confusion is not merely wanton or ignorant, but the result of natural development; that thirdly the change involves some inconveniences, especially to hurried and careless writers.
	www.bartleby.com /116/210.html (796 words)

	Review of Gerunds
		A gerund always functions as a noun: either a subject, a direct object, subject complement, or object of preposition.
		Gerunds can be modified by adjectives and, because they have some qualities of a verb, can take objects.
		A gerund sometimes begins a phrase that, taken as a whole, functions as the subject of the sentence, as in the third and fourth sentences to the right.
	www.nvcc.edu /home/rorkwis/Verbals/verbals/gerundstour.htm (488 words)

	Spanish Gerund and the Progressive Tenses \| 123TeachMe
		The gerund for the verb ir is yendo.
		The gerund is primarily used: with estar to form the progressive tenses; with verbs of motion and seguir/continuar; to introduce an adverbial phrase or express “by (do)-ing (something)”.
		The gerund with verbs of motion and seguir/continuar.
	www.123teachme.com /learn_spanish/spanish_gerund_present_participle (1014 words)

	Gerund - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		The gerund is a part of speech, and the younger half-brother of the infinitive.
		Left without anywhere to be, the gerund proceeded to wander the frozen wastes of southern England for the rest of its childhood, inspiring Charles Dickens to write his infamous handbook for the care and feeding of shackled boys.
		Embittered by its savage youth, the gerund fled to Amerika, where it established itself as a Don in the Pretentious Fucktard Mafia, responsible for coordinating the smuggling of caviar, pickled monkey arses, and inegrated bell curves into prohibition-era New York City.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Gerund (316 words)

	Melanie Spiller : Gerund Gymnastics
		A gerund is an “ing” form of a verb that is the predicate of the sentence and acts as a noun.
		A gerund may be modified by an adjective or an adverb, and it may be used as part of a compound noun.
		This is not a compound noun, it is an adjective (gerund) + noun.
	blogs.officezealot.com /spiller/archive/2005/01/22/3950.aspx (833 words)

	Consejos de Inglés:The Gerund-Terry Bates(Gerundio)AndeanWinds Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A gerund is a verb form which ends in ing(example: playing) and acts as a noun.
		Gerunds can act as subjects, direct objects, predicate nouns and objects of a preposition.
		Gerunds can also take the role of object of a preposition.
	www.andeanwinds.com /col/articulos_terry_bates/gerund_esp.htm (280 words)

	Gerunds and Infinitives: Their Noun Roles
		Here are five noun-uses of gerunds and infinitives (and one additional non-noun use, the adjective complement, that we throw in here, free of charge).
		When the noun preceding the gerund is modified by other words, use the common form of that noun, not the possessive.
		When the noun preceding the gerund is plural, collective, or abstract, use the common form of that noun, not the possessive.
	grammar.ccc.commnet.edu /grammar/gerunds.htm (1428 words)

	KET DL \| Latin 3 \| Grammatica \| Participles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		All gerunds are considered neuter nouns and there is NO nominative case and NO plural form.
		In this instance, one always sees a form of the gerund(ive) and a form of the verb 'to be' and the agent doing the action in the dative case.
		The gerundive is by far the more popular form and its case will agree with whatever the subject of the verb 'to be' is.
	www.dl.ket.org /latin3/grammar/gerund.htm (257 words)

	Gerund (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A gerund is a verb ending in -ing and used as a noun.
		A gerund phrase is a noun phrase made up of a gerund plus any complements of the gerund plus any modifiers of either the complement or the gerund.
		In the second example, the gerund phrase is doing the audit (the gerund doing, its direct object audit, and the, which modifies the direct object).
	englishplus.com /grammar/00000335.htm (92 words)

	Verbals
		This section covers three different verbals: the participle (which acts as an adjective), the gerund (which acts as a noun), and the infinitive (which also acts as a noun).
		A gerund is a noun formed from a verb.
		Although they look the same, gerunds and present participles are different parts of speech, and need to be treated differently.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/verbals.html (339 words)

	Buber's Basque Page: Note 21: The Basque Gerund
		The gerund plays a central role in the syntax of the modern language, but its form is not everywhere the same.
		Now, this regional variation in formation suggests that the gerund is not particularly ancient in Basque, and that it has developed in somewhat different ways in the several dialects.
		This gerund, like every gerund, is a verb-form, showing typical verbal properties, such as taking an object and an adverb.
	www.buber.net /Basque/Euskara/Larry/note_21.html (1294 words)

	Spanish Grammar: Gerund (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Definition: The gerund is also called the present participle; however, the gerund is Not the equivalent to the English gerund.
		The gerund is formed by removing the infinitive endings, -ar, -er, and -ir and by adding -ando to -ar and -iendo to -er and -ir.
		The gerund is used to form the progressive or continuous tenses.
	www.spanishlanguageguide.com /spanish/grammar/gerund.asp (106 words)

	Gerunds - Glossary Definition - UsingEnglish.com
		A Gerund is a verb when it acts as a noun; gerunds can act as the subject or object of a main verb.
		The gerund looks identical to the present participle, which is used after the auxiliary verb 'to be', but are not the same as they do not function as main verbs.
		Gerunds are used after certain words and expressions, as is the infinitive, so it is useful to try to learn which form an adjective, etc., takes.
	www.usingenglish.com /glossary/gerund.html (191 words)

	The Gerund
		Gerunds are not, however, all that easy to pick out.
		Thus, gerunds will be subjects, subject complements, direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of prepositions.
		Swimming = present participle completing the past progressive verb were swimming
	www.chompchomp.com /terms/gerund.htm (123 words)

	Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives - The OWL at Purdue
		However, since a gerund functions as a noun, it occupies some positions in a sentence that a noun ordinarily would, for example: subject, direct object, subject complement, and object of preposition.
		A Gerund Phrase is a group of words consisting of a gerund and the modifier(s) and/or (pro)noun(s) or noun phrase(s) that function as the direct object(s), indirect object(s), or complement(s) of the action or state expressed in the gerund, such as:
		A gerund is a verbal ending in -ing that is used as a noun.
	owl.english.purdue.edu /handouts/grammar/g_verbals.html (767 words)

	Gerund Passives
		In the English XTAG grammar, gerund passives are treated in an almost exactly similar fashion to sentential passives, and are assigned separate trees within the appropriate tree families.
		The passive trees are assumed to be related to only the NP gerund trees (and not the determiner gerund trees), since passive structures involve movement of some object to the subject position (in a movement analysis).
		Also, like the sentential passives, gerund passives are found in most tree families that have a direct object in the declarative tree.
	www.cis.upenn.edu /~xtag/release-8.31.98-html/node152.html (256 words)

	Using Gerunds and Infinitives
		Gerunds and infinitives are verb forms that can take the place of a noun in a sentence.
		Both gerunds and infinitives can replace a noun as the object of a verb.
		Whether you use a gerund or an infinitive depends on the main verb in the sentence.
	www.utoronto.ca /writing/l2ger.html (478 words)

	Gerund (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gerunds are the -ing forms of verbs used as nouns, and the English language is full of them!
		Some unlucky ones will have struggled through mindless grammar exercises, in which they have to determine whether the -ing form is in fact a gerund or a participle, if it is being used as a predicative complement to the subject or to the object, and so on.
		There is no denying (gerund) that this is a difficult area of English grammar, but in my opinion such exercises do little to help learners in improving (gerund) their writing and speaking competence in the language.
	esl.fis.edu /parents/easy/gerund.htm (1488 words)

	GERUND -BUSINESS SPANISH TUTORIALS -
		The gerund is also called the present participle; however, the gerund is NOT the equivalent to the English gerund.
		The gerund is used in the present progressive.
		The gerund is used to express how something is done and also as a modifying phrase that is subordinate to another verb.
	www.businessspanish.com /LECCION/gerund.htm (412 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| OPINION > A reacquaintance with English nouns—IV
		We already know that a gerund is a verbal that ends in –ing and works as a noun.
		As a noun form, a gerund phrase can also serve as direct object of a verb, as a subject complement, or as an object of the preposition.
		We must always keep in mind that a gerund phrase, like the basic gerund, is a form that never requires a comma.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2006/nov/27/yehey/opinion/20061127opi6.html (368 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)