query: Gerund usage: when can verbs be used as -ing nouns?
positive_passages.docid: 4412
positive_passages.text: When is a gerund supposed to be preceded by a possessive adjective/determiner?
negative_passages.docid: 50498
negative_passages.text: Using the continuous or the infinitive form of a verb when is used as a noun/complement
negative_passages.docid: 37601
negative_passages.text: Catenatives followed by infinitives and gerunds
negative_passages.docid: 10049
negative_passages.text: How to use "text" as a verb
negative_passages.docid: 135128
negative_passages.text: Beginning a sentence with a gerund?
negative_passages.docid: 136988
negative_passages.text: "For [verb]ing" vs "to [verb]"
negative_passages.docid: 146696
negative_passages.text: Difference between gerunds and nouns ending in -tion
negative_passages.docid: 8927
negative_passages.text: When does a gerund become a verb?
negative_passages.docid: 56290
negative_passages.text: Two consecutive gerunds? -ing -ing?
negative_passages.docid: 61685
negative_passages.text: ing-clause grammar question
negative_passages.docid: 63857
negative_passages.text: Repeating "to" and "will" in enumerations of verbs
negative_passages.docid: 113147
negative_passages.text: Why isn’t singular ‘they’ used with 3Sg verb forms?
negative_passages.docid: 7171
negative_passages.text: How does one know when to use a gerund or an infinitive?
negative_passages.docid: 9478
negative_passages.text: Do the -ing and to-infinitive "verbs" that follow catenative verbs always take the grammatical function of "noun"?
negative_passages.docid: 40419
negative_passages.text: So, Can linking verbs be used with "continuous tenses"?
negative_passages.docid: 133934
negative_passages.text: "Reflexive only" verbs
negative_passages.docid: 156238
negative_passages.text: Gerund ending in -ings?