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Any verb adding ing is a gerund, and gerunds are verbal nouns. Verbal nouns are nouns that stem from verbs, and I've only seen gerunds given as examples of verbal nouns here. Verbs like to accomplish and to move are the stems of the verbal nouns accomplishment and movement. There are other...

Hmm, damn, looks like it's one of those things that is likely to confuse me if I think too much about it.I realized that I would probably say ell-ay, and sell aprons, keeping the L pretty dark but... I should avoid thinking about it, otherwise I mess everything up. Anyway, being aware of what...

Clive wrote: Hi, I haven't heard the expression 'a verbal noun'. How would you define it? Yes, gerunds can have an article. Clive When I was studying Turkish, we used the term 'verbal noun' to identify a verb form made into a noun by adding suffixes to denote person, possession, time,...

Miles -- I don't mean to be too discouraging, but "performaly" is not a word. I'm not even sure what an adjective form of a verb would be, unless you mean somehing like "a performing bear," in which case you would use the gerund. Not all parts of speech can be turned into other parts of speech...