Latin A-Level
Gerund as active verbal noun
What Gerund as active verbal noun means in Latin A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Gerund as active verbal noun
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A verbal noun, active in sense, that declines only in the oblique cases and names the activity itself, as in ars amandi, the art of loving.
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