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At the behest of the Grammar, the gerund It is the non-personal verb form that expresses simultaneity of an action with the time in which it is spoken.

Verb form that manifests the simultaneity of an action with the time in which it is mentioned

It is an invariable verb form, that is, it cannot change, it corresponds to the infinitive mode, a verb, which will always indicate that the action is happening, it is being carried out and it is being carried out, just later we will see that its denomination from the Latin language is in connection with this…

How it is composed

The ending is always I walk for the verbs corresponding to the first conjugation, or going, in the case of those that correspond to either the second and third conjugation, while, in the sentence, the gerund will functionally equal the adverb. For example: the gerund of to walk it will be walking.

Considered as one of the non-personal forms of the verb, together with the infinitive and the participle, the gerund expresses priority or simultaneity, never posteriority.

The correct way to compose them when the verb is regular, the ending ar, er, and ir is replaced by ando, o iendo. Sing singing; Living living.

Meanwhile, if the stem of the verb ends in a vowel, for example to read, the ending of going, reading is added to it.

And in irregular verbs, when they end in ir, with an e, with an o in their root, they modify those vowels by u and i. Asking / asking.

Compound gerund and forms in its adverbial function

For his part, compound gerund of a verb will conform to said verb in simple participle, preceded by the verb have in gerund
To use it, it will be necessary to first locate a copulative verb, for example: Juana was coming when we called her, José was writing the composition when she heard the screams.

Then, the gerunds should be applied in the following cases: simultaneity (we go out thinking about it), anteriority (practicing the choreography she fell), adverbial function (Laura enjoys taking her grandmother to the square), character explanatory (José seeing that he was not coming, he decided to leave) and in verbal phrases (his participation of her in the meeting has been generating controversies).

Meanwhile, in its adverbial function, the gerund may take the following forms: modal (María traveling, su mother returning, both are moving), concessive (Despite all the tremendous things that happened in his life, he was able to overcome and succeed), temporary (We were having dinner and the food we had in the oven burned) and causal (Having made so many efforts, he ended up buying the house that wished).

Basically, the gerund serves to convert the verbs into actions that do not end, but rather that they are being carried out.

We must take into account when writing or pronouncing them that on many occasions the action that represents the gerund modifies the verb, so much so that for example the gerund of the verb to read is not reading but reading. Something similar occurs with another verb that is widely used as a gerund: going, which comes from the verb go, and we have to consider that its use will never be irendo.

The origin of the term comes from Latin, more precisely from the word generate, which refers to carry out.

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