gerunds

• “Yeah, yeah, she said, it’s appearing in a finite verb form all right, but the thing is, in English gerunds and progressive participles sound the same!”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Watch my Backformation

• “Consider these examples (from the British National Corpus) and you tell me which are gerunds and which are participles:”

  G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT

• “To shift the discussion just a bit, whether or not we say present participles and gerunds should be differentiated as distinct parts of speech, it still seems to me that except for in cases of a present participle in the slot of attributive adjective (ex/The steering wheel of my car is blue) gerunds and present participles take objects (I like driving my car).”

  G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT

• “He mentions that gerunds carry the meaning of ‘real, present, in progress’ while infinitives carry the meaning of ‘potential, unreal, future’.”

  G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT

• “Also like David, I think the ability of gerunds & infinitives to take objects is probably more important than distinctions between the too.”

  G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT

• “Although many verbs can be followed by a gerund, only a few verbs are very common with gerunds.”

  G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT

• “As Swan (2005) notes: “The distinction between ‘participles’ and ‘gerunds’ is not always clear-cut, and it can sometimes be difficut to decide which term to use” (p. 270).”

  G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT

• “The racist one who lives next to The National Insurance and Guarantee Corporation Limited – a subsidiary of UK financial services company Royal Bank of Scotland Group and the gerunds …”

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• “The best rule of thumb for new writers is to look at a sentence and see if it can work without the had/have and gerunds.”

  Writing: Passive Language « Colleen Anderson

• “These words are had/has/have been, was/were and gerunds, the words that end in “ing.””

  Writing: Passive Language « Colleen Anderson

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