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Historically, grammarians have described a verbal noun or gerundial noun as a verb form that functions as a noun. [1] An example of a verbal noun in English is 'sacking' as in the sentence "The sacking of the city was an epochal event" (wherein sacking is a gerund form of the verb sack ).
Noun phrase, not clause — playing is a verbal noun (also termed deverbal noun) For more details and examples, see -ing: uses. "Gerund" clauses with a specified subject
The -ing form of a verb has both noun uses and adjectival (or adverbial) uses. In either case it may function as a non-finite verb (for example, by taking direct objects), or as a pure noun or adjective. When it behaves as a non-finite verb, it is called a gerund in the noun case, and a present participle in the
In Latin grammar, a gerundive (/ dʒ ə ˈ r ʌ n d ɪ v /) is a verb form that functions as a verbal adjective.. In Classical Latin, the gerundive has the same form as the gerund, but is distinct from the present active participle.
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The article claims to cover "gerundial nouns", but to exclude gerunds. All the examples given of "gerundial nouns" are gerunds. Meanwhile, gerunds are again referred to as a different type of word that can also be used as a noun. The linked article on gerunds clearly covers the same sort of "gerundial nouns".
Proper nouns are a class of words such as December, Canada, Leah, and Johnson that occur within noun phrases (NPs) that are proper names, [2] though not all proper names contain proper nouns (e.g., General Electric is a proper name with no proper noun).