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  • _The Gerund is a verbal noun and is used only in the genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative singular.

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • For example: remember + Gerund means the action took place and is now the object of memory; remember + infinitive means the memory ought to lead to the action.

    An Update « Unknowing 2010

  • I got it out of my 501 Spanish Verbs, which labeled it the Gerund, which I understand is the same as the Present Participle.

    Presente Progresiva? 2007

  • I got it out of my 501 Spanish Verbs, which labeled it the Gerund, which I understand is the same as the Present Participle.

    Presente Progresiva? 2007

  • I got it out of my 501 Spanish Verbs, which labeled it the Gerund, which I understand is the same as the Present Participle.

    Presente Progresiva? 2007

  • For a more lively exploration, though not really a handbook for reference, check out Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log, which Pullum also co-authored -- I'm a big Language Log fan.

    Omit Needless Advice 2009

  • I got it out of my 501 Spanish Verbs, which labeled it the Gerund, which I understand is the same as the Present Participle.

    Presente Progresiva? 2007

  • It is the story of two boys, Jerold and Gerund, who get caught up in the battle between the King of

    Archive 2007-11-01 Freedomstar 2007

  • I brought one of them with me, and have been reading it with immense pleasure: Far from the Madding Gerund, a collection of posts from one of my favorite blogs, Language Log.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • With a book built from a blog, the editors and publishers have to figure some way to handle the links, and the folks who put Far from the Madding Gerund together decided to indicate links in the text with a lighter font and with a URL and a little bit of info about the link set as marginalia.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

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