| 单词 | half-gerund |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf-gerund half-gerund n. Grammar (Henry Sweet's term for) the -ing form of the English verb when used with a function intermediate between that of the present participle and that of the gerund, e.g. in to prevent the ladies leaving us or she caught cold sitting on the damp grass. ΘΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > nouns derived from verbs supinec1450 gerundive1483 verbal nouna1504 overthrown?1533 gerund1542 verbal substantive1570 1898 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. II. 121 The absence of a distinction between common case and genitive in the plural often makes it impossible in the spoken language to distinguish between gerund and half-gerund, as in to prevent the ladies leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed.., where the..alteration of ladies into ladies' would make leaving into a full gerund. 2013 B. Kortmann Free Adjuncts & Absolutes in Eng. i. 13 In these sentences the -ing form, sometimes related [sic] to as half-gerund..in traditional grammars, is still felt to be participial. half-gerund half-gerund n. (see quot. 1924). ΚΠ 1898 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. ii. 121 The absence of a distinction between common case and genitive in the plural often makes it impossible in the spoken language to distinguish between gerund and half-gerund, as in to prevent the ladies leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed.., where the..alteration of ladies into ladies' would make leaving into a full gerund. 1898 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. ii. 121 There seems little doubt that the colloquial half-gerunds in such causal constructions as she caught cold sitting on the damp grass..have arisen through dropping a preposition. 1924 H. E. Palmer Gram. Spoken Eng. 168 In certain constructions the ing form has a function intermediate between that of the present participle and the gerund. Sweet suggests for such cases the term half-gerund. < as lemmas |
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