From: Ben Crick (ben.crick@argonet.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 26 1998 - 14:06:07 EST
On Mon 26 Jan 98 (05:29:43), cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu wrote:
> 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.
As our Latin master made us recite in school:
"A GerundIVE is an adjectIVE".
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