| He also advises that one should use the active instead of the passive voice and gerunds instead of noun constructions. |
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| Speaking of gerunds, has anyone noticed that catenatives tend to be followed by gerunds if the catenative is a phrasal verb? |
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| The Turkish sentence has an economy of words and an elegance which are due to the language being agglutinative, using participles, gerundives, and gerunds. |
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| Manchu has no relative pronouns and expresses relative clauses by means of participles and gerunds. |
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| He wrote by hand, in cursive sentences that wound on for pages, riffs that 'rolled like music,' our teachers said, and loved gerunds. |
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| Modal verbs are defective insofar as they cannot be inflected, nor do they appear as gerunds, infinitives, or participles. |
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| Another question concerns which of these formations were actually nouns rather than verbs, or even something in between, such as participles or gerunds. |
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| Not since Walt Whitman first heard America singing has a writer captured the hopes and dreams of her people so effortlessly — and with so many gerunds. |
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| Productive and receptive skills are stretched with more phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, the different verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives, expressing future possibility, and giving opinions. |
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| In fits of concealed despair that went unnoticed even by those close enough to touch, Julien cursed the language of umlauts, eszetts, and gerunds. |
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| Consider the case of gerunds in Abkhaz, which lose the innermost subject AGR slot but retain the object AGR markers in the outermost prefixal slot. |
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