g ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gr gs gt gu gw gy gz

Перевод: gerund

[существительное]
герундий [грам.]

Тезаурус:

1. This particular passage focuses on the gerund.
2. There are two principal syntactic differences between these two verbs - first, finish can occur without an overt direct object, as in Have you finished ?, whereas complete in the relevant sense requires an overt direct object; second, finish can take a gerund complement, as in I've finished eating , but complete cannot (* I've completed reading ).
3. (vii) We follow current grammatical theory and practice in treating as clauses what are traditionally called participial, gerund, and infinitive constructions; for example Eating people is wrong, a woman destined for greatness, I'm sorry to hear it.
4. Indeed, it is perhaps not overly optimistic to think that the view of the relation between an event and its support put forward here may be applicable, mutatis mutandis, to the -ing form and may even throw light on the vexed question of gerund vs participle.
5. A gerund may exhibit all the syntactic properties of a noun: He is good at singing (music), or a verb: I like swimming (to swim).
6. By way of a quite proper analogy, suppose there were a certain amazing truth, that all and only the members of one species of tree, say Turner's Oak, could be described in a given language by sentences of a certain deep structure, or simply a rare surface-grammatical sequence: indefinite article, a curious gerund, preposition of a certain sort, and so on.