''-ing'' noun

Usage examples of gerund.

As always when Gerund met her here, he was conscious of how Gyro, as she came down those steps, had to force her mind out from the cloister of Barbe Barber back into the external world.

By the time she reached Gerund, her eyes held that familiar expression of detached amusement with which she faced both life and her husband.

Gyro said, kissing Gerund on his mouth and putting her arms round him.

Galingua in which Gerund, Cyro, and most civilized people of the day thought and conversed.

Even so, I recognized him as Gerund Gyres from the photographs the police had circulated.

I must make is that you, Gerund Gyres, as I must call you, have committed murder: on your own admission, you killed my chief warder.

I hoped he might go to bring help, but if Gerund thought of that he gave no sign.

It was a building in the literal sense of the gerund, for it was always building itself out of impossibility.

Vanya repeated inwardly, outwardly speaking of nouns, gerund phrases, and verbs.

In Quenya as in English, gerunds and abstract nouns cannot always be clearly distinguished.

Thick with nouns, clotted with gerunds, Hurdhu was palatable alike to human brains and the pale harneys of ancipitals.

It is a melancholy fact that, after a thousand years of missionary effort, the vast majority of civilized men do not know that gerunds are found only in the singular number.

Future Periphrastic Conjugation and that ticklish difference between the Gerund and the Gerundive, which is vital.

In Quenya as in English, gerunds and abstract nouns cannot always be clearly distinguished.

It is a melancholy fact that, after a thousand years of missionary effort, the vast majority of civilized men do not know that gerunds are found only in the singular number.