| 单词 | gerund |
| 例句 | In fact, gerunds with unmarked subjects were the historically earlier form, have long been used by the language’s best writers, and are perfectly idiomatic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I lacked even a basic knowledge of grammar, though I was learning, beginning with nouns and moving on to prepositions and gerunds. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Every object is a unique time-lapse record of its becoming, a visual gerund. Gaetano Pesce Adds ‘Performance Artist’ to His Portfolio 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z “Run” is a verb but “running” is a gerund, she told them. This Grammar Guru Will Solve the World’s Problems 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The gerund points to a “Macbeth”-like conspiracy of tree and human, each “throwing shade.” A Poet and Essayist Meditates on the Deep Roots Binding Humans and Trees 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z It's not just 'What is a gerund or a past participle?' Why the tale of Achilles and his lover still has the power to move us 2012-06-02T23:06:04Z Nearly every other sentence contains pungent Anglo-Saxon nouns and gerunds. Two Lifetime Crooks Wait for a Missing Daughter, With Shades of Beckett 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Or order beer without tossing in that same gerund. Books of The Times: ‘The Good Luck of Right Now’ Is a Story of Cute Misfits 2014-02-10T21:44:43Z In the same way, when the made-up playwright declares "Screw the whale, but save the gerund", we sense the support of the actual dramatist. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z It’s also one of the activities Koenig recommends for parents to introduce their kids to “musiking,” her preferred gerund for describing the act of playing with melody, rhythm and movement. Review | 4 new books offer advice on raising decent humans in our topsy-turvy world 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z His intentional use of a gerund in the title allows “entertaining” to be read as both doing a thing and being a thing. How Black Performance and Presence Shaped America 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The “being” in “being with my students” is a gerund and gets the possessive pronoun “my.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A thousand words but no picture (until now) 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the gerund form of a verb the British use describes Trump’s frequent stance toward allies. Opinion | Trump’s foreign policy of petulance 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z First off, nice possessive before a gerund, Jordan! Spieth dominates, Tiger stumbles and Crenshaw says goodbye: The 2012 Masters Rewatch - Golf Digest 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Run is a verb, she told them, but running is a gerund. This grammar guru may solve the world’s problems 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z He pumped the beat, a Ugandan jive, and after shouting the gerund a few more times, he finally came to its object: “Rep-re-sen-ting UUUUUUUUUU-gan-da!” Love’s runaways: the gay Ugandans forced into exile | Mark Gevisser 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z In precise usage, a gerund like this should be used with a possessive pronoun: “comfortable with his sharing her story.” Here's Someone You Never Heard of. Read On. 1453-09-24T05:00:00Z When I finally stopped teaching at age 76, most of my students didn't know whether Kipling was an author or a gerund…they didn't even know what a gerund was… College football mailbag: Taking a seat with CFP committee, preparing for chaos 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Trillions of creatures survive in highly demanding lives, clearly signaling their intentions, with neither adverb nor gerund. Here's What Would Happen If Animals Could Talk 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z "That" defines something, whereas "which" adds new information in a separate clause, often needing commas.It's a gerund. 10 questions on grammar 2013-05-13T23:56:09Z Another transgressor was Transport for London for its sign "It is safer to stay on the train than attempting to get off" - mixing up gerund and infinitive. The people who hate other people's bad grammar 2013-05-13T08:58:14Z And English verb forms, like past participles, gerunds and infinitives, can be difficult to master, since Chinese verbs are unchanging. International Students Pay Top Dollar at U.S. Colleges 2012-02-04T23:32:18Z Everyone knows a gerund is a noun named from a verb by adding "ing." College football mailbag: Taking a seat with CFP committee, preparing for chaos 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Though in the Texas twang, he drops the g’s from his gerunds. What You Missed While Not Watching Last Night's Reagan Library GOP Debate 2011-09-08T10:00:00Z A gerund is a noun made from a verb by adding "-ing".It's "was sat". 10 questions on grammar 2013-05-13T23:56:09Z The other indicates in the verb “to be” also the connection of persons with the infinitive and gerund, and is therefore of the nature of a possessive. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z A gerund A double diminutive A genitive It's letting the temperature drop to less than 45C. Quiz of the week's news 2011-06-17T01:19:28Z The infinitive, or its noun, is used for the gerund, or a gerundial phrase in English. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z The gerund "skilling" introduces us to the new and unneeded verb: to skill. Management guff 2011-02-28T11:43:18Z He is, in fact, a gerund; and I shall merely tell you, my dear Aennchen, that I drew up his horoscope a long while ago. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II Those who could not rise to his lofty level despised him because he respected the gerund, and also said were where they said was, and there are, where usage made it they is. The Bondboy Note.—In other instances than those in which clearness is involved many good writers use the objective case with the gerund. The Century Handbook of Writing Neuter Verbs ending in or, and verbs deponent, are declined like verbs passive; but with gerunds and supines like verbs active; thus presenting a curious combination of activity and supineness. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue It is found also as an infinitive, be�n; as a gerund, to beonne; and as a participle, beonde; in the present English its inflection is as follows: Present. A Handbook of the English Language Another example of the infinitive used as a gerund. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar In sentences the commonest errors are in linking an infinitive with a gerund, a participle with a verb, an active with a passive voice, a phrase with a clause. English: Composition and Literature A noun or pronoun linked with a gerund should be in the possessive case whenever the use of the objective case might cause confusion. The Century Handbook of Writing When necessity is signified, the gerund in dum is used without a preposition, the verb est being added. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue As early, however, as the Anglo-Saxon period the gerunds were liable to be used in a passive sense: he is to lufigenne = not he is to love, but he is to be loved. A Handbook of the English Language Lovely, with a show of insouciance, bagged three gerunds and one gerundive. The Varmint The Latin poets having taken this license, then proceeded a step further, and substituted the infinitive mood for the gerund in di. Notes and Queries, 1850.12.21 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. One must perforce go on rehearsing the same rudiments of learning, grinding over the same Latin gerunds, hearing the same monotonous recitations, month after month, and year after year. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries A substantive used with the gerund should always be in the possessive case. Practical Grammar and Composition When the to ceased in the twelfth century to be a distinctive mark of the dative infinitive or gerund, for was introduced to make the writer's intention clear. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. He hesitated for a moment, debating whether to allow him to retire with the honors, but his curiosity proving strong he said: "And now, Lentz, third line, second word—gerund or gerundive?" The Varmint There is also another elegant, and frequently used, way to form the gerund in Do. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language The prefix "a" before the gerund is followed by a hyphen. "Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students Page 83 Exercise 53 Wherever participles or gerunds are improperly used in the following sentences, correct the sentences so as to avoid such impropriety. Practical Grammar and Composition A lesson on the "gerund" in grammar would require a recall of the various relations in which a noun may stand, and the various ways in which a verb may be completed. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education For three days more the lover of the gerund and the gerundive sought to localize and detect the sources of information without avail. The Varmint The gerund in Do is formed by placing ni after the negative root or the negative present tense; e.g., aguezuni or aguenuni 'by not offering.' Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language The potency of right methods.—A teacher of Latin once used twenty minutes in a violent attempt to explain the difference between the gerund construction and the gerundive construction. The Vitalized School The gerund is often used as the object of a preposition, and frequently has a noun or pronoun modifier. Practical Grammar and Composition After is rendered likewise by the gerunds with the adverb vaar, after. Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. The clause in the constitution which pledged defiance to The Roman and guaranteed protection on the gerund and gerundive was exceedingly popular. The Varmint The remaining tenses of the optative, subjunctive, gerund, and infinitive are formed in the same way and with the same particles as are used for each in the first conjugation. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language The participle has been called an adjectival verbal; the gerund may be called a noun verbal. An English Grammar Exception: When the gerund phrase denotes a general action, it may be used without grammatical connection to the sentence; as, In traveling, good drinking water is essential. Practical Grammar and Composition A noun or a pronoun used before a gerund to denote the subject of the action should be put in the possessive case. Practical Exercises in English Absolute rigidity on Stover's part denounced the gerund, while a slight wriggling of his sensitive ears betrayed the approach of the abhorrent gerundive. The Varmint The gerund in Do is formed in two ways. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language Exercise.—Find sentences containing five participles, five infinitives, and five gerunds. An English Grammar Gerunds, explanation of, 80; confusion with participle, 80; with noun or pronoun modifier, 81; placing of gerund phrase, 81-82. Practical Grammar and Composition Participles in this construction correspond with the Latin gerund, and are sometimes called gerundives. The Grammar of English Grammars Once maliciously, when Fatty Harris was on his feet, The Roman asked: "Top of page, fifth word, gerund or gerundive?" The Varmint "It is no pain to die for love," said the low, deep voice, with an echo of rolling gerunds in the tone. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 The gerund is like the participle in form, and like a noun in use. An English Grammar Participles, explanation of, 80; confusion with gerunds, 80; dangling, 80-81; at beginning of sentence, 81; preceded by thus, 81. Practical Grammar and Composition His rule implicitly denies that they can either be parts of their verbs in the formation of tenses, or be governed by prepositions in the character of gerunds. The Grammar of English Grammars "Well, if you have, how are you going to spot the gerund and the gerundive?" The Varmint The gerund is used, as grammarians say, in a passive sense. Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War Instances will be found in treating of the pronoun or noun with a gerund, pronoun and antecedent, sometimes verb and subject, etc. An English Grammar May the gerund be correctly used without any grammatical connection to the rest of the sentence? Practical Grammar and Composition In office it is like the second kind of participles, described in Lesson 37, and from many grammarians has received the same name—some calling both gerunds, and others calling both infinitives. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition They uttered a phrase every quarter of an hour, prepared with difficulty, and in which the gerund of the verb, no doubt according to the grammatical turn of their own languages, was constantly employed. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Leaving should be used either as a gerund, leaving a posterity, or as a verbal noun, the leaving of a posterity. The Coverley Papers That is, should the possessive case of a noun or pronoun always be used with the gerund to indicate the active agent? An English Grammar As the object of a preposition is a participle or gerund used? Practical Grammar and Composition A gerund in Anglo-Saxon is a simple form of the verb in the active voice—the dative case of the infinitive merely—used mainly to indicate purpose, and always preceded by the preposition to. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition This spirit would inspire the word's gerund form: "hacking." Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software Both types of sentences are found; both are gerunds; sometimes the gerund has the possessive form before it, sometimes it has the objective. 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