There are three types of nouns that can be derived from verbs : present participle, past participle and verbal noun.
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Such verbal nouns can function, for instance, as noun adjuncts, as in " a writing desk ".
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The verbal noun covers many of the same notions as infinitives, gerunds and present participles in other Indo-European languages.
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Verbal nouns in Tamil are formed from the roots of verbs and are roughly equivalent to the English "-ing " nouns.
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In English, the present participle used as a verbal noun is called a gerund, as in " Bob loves swimming ".
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Her doctoral dissertation ( 1973 ) investigated a range of verbal nouns in Modern Hebrew in the framework of current transformational syntactic theory.
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In languages without an infinitive, the infinitive is translated either as a " that "-clause or as a verbal noun.
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Celtic languages have a somewhat different type of perfect construction, where a word meaning " after " is used together with a verbal noun.
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This is rather similar to the English verbal noun-ING form, and therefore as a noun, this form can inflect just like any other noun.
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Sino-Japanese words are almost exclusively nouns, of which many are verbal nouns or adjectival nouns, meaning that they can act as verbs or adjectives.
