A gerund is a verbal form that looks like a participle but functions as a noun. For example: "Drinking gin on an empty stomach is really stupid." Ordinarily, gerunds are as tame as gerbils, but ...

LAST week we took up the perfect infinitive as a grammatical form that, in tandem with the main verb of a sentence, either refers to things that might have happened in the past, as in “The board seems ...

A gerund is the form of a verb that ends in “ing” and is used as a noun. Compare “Jen is walking” to “Walking is good exercise.” In the first sentence, the subject is the noun Jen and ...

When you use a verb as a subject, we usually put it in the gerund form. It is possible to use the infinitive but this can sound old-fashioned and formal. Playing volleyball is fun!

It’s not a long way from adverb to verb, hence “to onboard” a new worker. The gerund form is “onboarding.” (Gerunds, you might recall, are verbs acting as nouns.) “ Verbification ” can happen to any ...

The subject is “Militia,” and the verb is “being,” the gerund form of “to be.” Why the infrequent gerund? Latin has a terrifyingly-named grammatical construction: the ablative absolute. Latin nouns ...