Re: Verb/Noun Combos?

En réponse à Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>:

>
> That brings up something I've been wondering about for a while...what
> exactly is the difference between an infinitive and a gerund? They're
> both verb forms that act like nouns.
>
AFAIK, the gerund is more adverbial in its use. English is a bit misleading in
that. But the use in Latin makes it much clearer: the infinitive is used only
in the nominative or accusative cases, the gerund in any other case, including
after prepositions. Also, an infinitive has usually a single form, whatever the
case it's used in, while a gerund changes form with case.

Of course, those definitions are only what I learned. They tend to change from
language to language.

Christophe.

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