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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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noun

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

“a king's accession to a confederacy”

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gerunds

Part of Speechnoun

(grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some

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Common Phrases

. gerunds
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Related Words

participlespluralsprepositionspast participlediphthongssplit infinitivehomophonesgenitive

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