From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 26 1998 - 06:29:43 EST
At 2:30 AM -0600 1/26/98, Peter Phillips wrote:
>Yes OK, bless Euclid. Yes, thankyou for the kind soul who shared the real
>meaning of quod and quid but my question remains - can you have a gerund
>with the present tense and if so why not here?
Yes, you can have a gerundive with a present tense: QUOD EST DEMONSTRANDUM
is perfectly good Latin for "what is to be shown/proven." But that's a
gerundive, not a gerund: gerundive is a verbal adjective, gerund a verbal
noun supplying the oblique cases of the infinitive and used only in very
restricted ways.
Carl W. Conrad
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