What do the following words have in common? What has happened to them in Modern English? wilt, hast, thine, art You all fail! Any fool can tell that the words are old . Of course they are old in an exam based on Old English! What do the

Hello MrP History of English Gerunds (quoted from OED) The most notable development of the verbal nouns in form of -ing is its use as a gerund, i.e. a substantive with certain verbal functions, particularly those of being qualified by an