:I'm not sure about the other questions ( if no one comes around I'll see what I can do ), but French does have a gerund, it looks like a present participle preceded by " en " : " en mangeant ", " ( while / in ) eating " . ( This is a coincidence from Latin, where the present participle stem ended in-nt and the gerund / gerundive ended in-nd, but the d became devoiced to a t as it evolved into French ).
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:The function of " to pull " or " pulling " in the sentence is as a gerund ( probably the word you couldn't think of ) . " Pulling " would be the more correct in a formal context, probably because " to pull " reminds one needlessly of an infinitive form . ( There's a trace of gerundive in the sentence too, in that Jake ought to be pulled away from the television at bedtime, but that's probably neither here nor there . ) It a matter of having the correct ear for which to use rather than being gramatically correct, I think .-Nunh-huh 06 : 12, 18 November 2005 ( UTC ) As an example " Finns like to drink alcohol . " and " Finns like drinking alcohol . " are equally acceptable sentences, but " Finns like to drink alcohol more than other people . " is clearly preferable to " Finns like drinking alchohol more than other people ."
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