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gerund-participle

gerund-participle noun: the form of an English verb that ends in -ing and can function as a noun, an adjective, or a progressive verb.

Noun

gerund-participle (plural gerund-participles)

  1. The form of an English verb that ends in -ing and can function as a noun, an adjective, or a progressive verb.
    • Near-synonyms: (in other operational definitions) gerund, present participle
    • The gerund-participle ¶ Traditionally (for example, in the grammar of Latin), a gerund is a verb-form that is functionally similar to a noun, whereas a participle is one that is functionally similar to an adjective.2005, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

Examples of gerund-participle in a sentence

  • They therefore use the merged category "gerund-participle".2010, Mark Liberman, “Gerunds vs. participles”, in Language Log:
  • This amounted to 176 occurrences of the gerund-participle and 49 of the to-infinitive, an interesting statistic in itself, as it confirms the more noun-like character of the gerund-participle, ...2014, Patrick Duffley, Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon:

Synonyms of gerund-participle

Forms of gerund-participle

pluralgerund-participles

Questions about gerund-participle

What does gerund-participle mean?
Gerund-participle means the form of an English verb that ends in -ing and can function as a noun, an adjective, or a progressive verb.
How do you use gerund-participle in a sentence?
They therefore use the merged category "gerund-participle".
What part of speech is gerund-participle?
Gerund-participle is a noun.
What is the plural of gerund-participle?
The plural of gerund-participle is gerund-participles.

Words near gerund-participle in the dictionary

  1. geru
  2. gerund
  3. gerund-grinder
  4. gerund-grinders
  5. gerund-grinding
  6. gerund-participle
  7. gerund-participles
  8. gerundal
  9. gerundally
  10. gerundial
  11. gerundially

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