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adjectivegerundal (not comparable)
- not comparableBeing or pertaining to a gerund.
c. Cartier's defeating Dugué is significant (gerundal or verbal noun clause) d. Nelson saw Cartier defeating Dugué (participial clause)
1985, Timothy Shopen, Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 2, Complex Constructions, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 431 more example
The difference between these forms is, however, purely phonetic, since the gerund may also be mutated and the infinitive may appear in gerundal form ...
1943, Clarence Paschall, The Semasiology of Words Derived from the Indo-European *nem-
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