Re: Newbie question
| From: | <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 28, 2001, 15:12 |
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Mark Hutchinson wrote:
> Er... What's a gerund? I'm new and I don't know.
Asking is a gerund.
More seriously, it's a form of a verb that can be used as a noun.
In English, for example, "walking" is the way to form the gerund of
"walk". In German, "fahren" is the way to form the gerund of "fahren".
(No, I do not consider "to walk" to be the infinitive of the English
verb. "To" is a particle, not part of the verb.)