ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GERUND
From Late Latin gerundium, from Latin gerundum something to be carried on, from gerere to wage.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GERUND»
Discover the use of
gerund in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gerund and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The English
Gerund-participle: A Comparison with the Infinitive
Original Scholarly Monograph
2
Far from the Madding
Gerund: And Other Dispatches from ...
Language Log is a site where serious professional linguists go to have fun. There's plenty of fun and plenty to get you thinking about language in new ways in this collection. “Pure” Standard English
Mark Liberman, Geoffrey K. Pullum, 2006
3
The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book
(back cover) Second Edition Updated to reflect questions found on various recent ESL tests, this book presents 400 common phrasal verbs as they are used in everyday English.
4
The Teacher's Grammar of English with Answers: A Course Book ...
The subject of gerund complements depends on the verb: • With some verbs (e.g.
, finish, practice), there is no overt subject, and the subject is understood as the
main clause subject. We finished unpacking the boxes. • With some verbs, there ...
5
The History of the Famous Preacher, Friar
Gerund de ...
Otherwise Gerund Zotes José Francisco de Isla. " Not whilst I am alive," cried my
aunt Catanla eagerly. •* Perote indeed ! Perote sounds just for all the world like
Pe~ rot, or pipkin j and shall the son of my bowels go about with a name like the ...
José Francisco de Isla, 1772
6
Verbal Periphrases in Romance: Aspect, Actionality, and ...
system of periphrases formed with present participle or gerund has been
severely reduced, aller + gerund is the only form left, but is nowadays quite rare.
In Italian a construction with the verb andare + gerund occurs more frequently
than in ...
These are the present gerund (prG), the perfect gerund (pfG) and the separate
negative perfect gerund (npG) . Moreover, present gerunds are used to form
periphrastic causatives (10.2). The present gerund of a verb is formed by
suffixation of ...
8
A Grammar of Wambule: Grammar, Lexicon, Texts, and Cultural ...
... the perfect gerund, the present gerund, the conditional gerund, the
simultaneous gerund, the similaritive gerund, the negative state gerund, the
connective gerund, the gerund of manner and the gerund of circumvagant motion
. 9.1.1 Perfect ...
Jean Robert Opgenort, 2004
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The Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference
tive phrases used as objects of verbs, for example, as well as gerund phrases
used as objects of prepositions. The internal structure of the phrase is much the
same as that of the phrase operating within a sentence: a gerund, an infinitive,
and ...
Gary Lutz, Diane Stevenson, 2005
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Grammar: A Student's Guide
GERUND The verbal noun type of gerund takes the same kind of modifiers as a
noun, such as adjectives, possessives, demonstratives and prepositional
phrases. In the following examples, the gerunds (all of the verbal noun type) and
their ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GERUND»
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gerund is used in the context of the following news items.
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Fricasseed barf - noun, adjective, gerund. A Christmas food and how the Democrats and Republicans in Olympia described each other after the ... «Maple Valley Reporter, Jul 15»
Column: A new definition for 'dote?'
If anything, I would think it would be more common to use the gerund “doting” if one wanted to talk about the aforementioned excessive and ... «Current in Zionsville, Jun 15»
Bloody-knuckled
What: Dirty Gerund Poetry Series presents Porsha Olayiwola When: 9 p.m. June 22. Where: Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St., ... «Worcester Telegram, Jun 15»
Patriots OTA breakdown: Rob Gronkowski and Scott Chandler stay hot
Uh, Jeff, you can't make a gerund out of a word that is not a verb. Reply · Like. · June 11 at 9:29pm. Mike Monahan · Whitefield, New Hampshire. «Boston Herald, Jun 15»
The Power of Schwa: Surging Demand for English Language Spurs …
The focus turned to the difference between a present participle and a gerund, or a modal and an auxiliary verb. I also learned to stand in front of ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que is lost in the sauce
There's the usual affected cornpone and gerund-mangling dialectical signifiers ('que! stylin'!). And among the unfocused multitude of options on ... «Chicago Reader, Jun 15»
Old notions put out to pasture
We have classes in apostrophe placement, 'Our Friend The Gerund', and how to mass-delete exclamation marks. "Last week a nice Sergeant ... «The Nelson Mail, Jun 15»
British school of the New Evangelization celebrates England's …
As he explained in an interview to Fr Antonio Spadaro SJ, “I think the Latin gerund miserando is impossible to translate in both Italian and ... «Vatican Radio, May 15»
The effects of 'parenting' on child-rearing
... just the latest example of resistance to a certain use of parent (often, but not always intransitive) and its corollary, the gerund form parenting. «Boston Globe, May 15»
The Picture Book That Taught My 3-Year-Old About Death
She got stuck on the first gerund in the list, even though that one was the easiest, conceptually speaking. “Why did Smokey stop moving?”. «Slate Magazine, May 15»
