gerund
n=3
a: Gerund ~
b: person whose father is a verb and
What: "I could say the Gerund is like a person whose father is a verb and mother is a noun. It takes after Dad in looks (you can clearly see a verb as its core) and after Mom in behaviour - it functions the same way nouns do, with a few exceptions.
I don't understand why you feel it so different in these sentences. We could change the gerunds for nouns:
He is used to living alone."
Useful?
Writer: Lucretia
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Where:
http://www.englishpage.net/showthread.php?11058-Shouldn%E2%80%99t-gerund-represent-an-entity-of-sort
Date: Oct 9 2013 3:12 PM
# 3899 Critique Analogy
A Shape Shifting Word
a: Gerund ~
b: a superhero of grammar
What: "A gerund is like a superhero of grammar. It functions just like an ordinary man on the street, but then, in an instant, it can transform itself into something far more spectacular."
Useful?
Writer: Joanne Kimes, Gary Robert Muschla
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Date: Oct 9 2013 3:12 PM
# 3900 Critique Analogy
Nounification?
a: Gerund ~
b: verb-noun
What: Yes, there are no gerunds here. A gerund is like a verb-noun--- for example 'my critiquing you is well crap'. It has a predicate 'is', but also an object 'you'."
Useful?
Writer: abu nuwas
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Date: Oct 9 2013 3:17 PM
# 3901 Critique Analogy
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