Sentence examples for verbal noun from inspiring English sources

The imperfective verb stem is often identifiable as a participial form, or "verbal noun".

In this young century, the word in the news — though not yet in most dictionaries — that causes much wincing during debate is the verbal noun waterboarding.

The equivalent is the verbal noun, which is a noun closely linked to the verb, though not necessarily derived from the same stem.

The gap thus left was filled, as in Scottish Gaelic and Manx, by a construction involving the substantive verb and the verbal noun; e.g., y mae'r wraig yn myned "the woman goes" or "the woman is going" is composed of the verb mae "is" and the verbal noun myned "going".

That month, the law professor Alan Dershowitz, in a Boston Globe op-ed column critical of the rough interrogation method, put the two words together as a verbal noun or gerund.

As in Modern Welsh, the inherited present tense has largely future meaning, and present time is mainly expressed by the present-tense form of the substantive verb and the preposition a ig) with the verbal noun.

In Turkic, verbal nouns that act solely as derived nouns occur alongside the participles.

Verbal derivation was richly developed already in Proto-Uralic with a wide variety of verbal nouns, infinitives, and participles.

Nominalized verb formations such as verbal nouns, participles, and predicative adjectives probably harken back to the protolanguage and can be reconstructed for predicates expressing state rather than action.

From these verbal nouns, denominative verbs could be made; thus from zicu plus -ce, a past tense of perfective affix, was made zichuche "he wrote, he has written".

And what of the rest of us, we who are not of the opinion that using verbal nouns and the like is akin to kicking an elderly lady off the bus — what do we have to be annoyed by?