Examples of gerund

• A gerund can be either the subject or object of a sentence in English, e.g. 'Cycling is fun' or 'I enjoy cycling'.

• Gerunds are verbal nouns, and I remember that they are used in a special way in Latin.

• While purely indefinite examples are hard to come by, verbal gerunds do participate in the ambiguity patterns also found for bare nominal gerunds.

• Purely indefinite readings appear to be more exceptional, yet in some contexts they provide a plausible interpretation of a given gerund construction.

• In view of this, we could expect the subject gerunds to be the first to acquire the verbal traits characteristic of the participle.

• As pointed out above, more than the other two gerund types, definite nominal gerunds tend to co-occur with prepositions other than the most frequent six.

• A certain degree of functional differentiation is also apparent in combinations of definite nominal gerunds with the prepositions of, by and in.

• More marginally, definite nominal gerunds can also be used to specify a (typically undesirable) result, which is then presented as an accessible fact.