The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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“TiVoing,” meaning to record a show for later viewing, even became one of those generic gerunds, like “Xeroxing” or “Googling.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Muir and “WNT’s” reporters frequently eschew verbs, replacing them with gerunds in a kind of headline-style speed talk.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015
And English verb forms, like past participles, gerunds and infinitives, can be difficult to master, since Chinese verbs are unchanging.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
Though in the Texas twang, he drops the g’s from his gerunds.
From Time ● Sep. 8, 2011
In fact, gerunds with unmarked subjects were the historically earlier form, have long been used by the language’s best writers, and are perfectly idiomatic.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
