The gerundive is an unchangeable form of the verb, an independent part of speech that combines the attributes of the verb (appearance and repetition) and adverbs (immutability, syntactic role of circumstance), designates an additional action for the main. Answering questions what do? What did you do? 2. The role of gerunds in the speech of the gerunds make speech more precise, dynamic, they convey a lot of actions that take place simultaneously. The gerunds have rich expressive abilities. Capacity, compactness, expressiveness – these properties of gerunds are widely used by poets and writers in their works. Simple sentences, complicated by participial turns, are more economical and capacious in comparison with synonymous subordinate clauses with subordinate circumstantial proposals. Their use helps the writer to create visually, vivid, memorable images on a sufficiently small space of text, as if “finishing” the actions of the characters. 3. SAMPLES of reasoning about
the role of gerunds in a specific text. SAMPLE I investigated the role of gerunds and adverbial spirits in the passage from the novel by Alexander Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” – “Winter, Peasant, triumphing…” and found that in 11 lines the poet used five gerunds and adverbial spirits. The gerundive “triumphantly” accurately conveys the condition of the peasant who has long waited for winter and now rejoices that his work will be lightened and illuminated by the beauty of the renewed nature. The participial rotation “snow of the scum” helps to understand the action of the horse. She “paddles”, t. To her it is difficult to move with a load on the snow. An amazingly accurate picture of the action performed by the tent helps to create a verbal part of the “reins blowing up fluffy”. When we read this line, we not only see fluffy snow flying out from under the hooves, but we smell winter freshness. Thanks to the girlish parts (“putting the bug in the sled”, “transforming myself into a horse”), the author managed to create
a visible image of a courtyard boy, who is happy with the coming of winter, and convey his attitude to him – kind, playful. Thus, it is not accidental that Pushkin widely used verbal participles and adverbial turns in this fragment. With their help, such a “painting” is achieved, that at least take a brush and paint this picture of the Russian winter that has begun. When we read this line, we not only see fluffy snow flying out from under the hooves, but we smell winter freshness. Thanks to the girlish parts (“putting the bug in the sled”, “transforming myself into a horse”), the author managed to create a visible image of a courtyard boy, who is happy with the coming of winter, and convey his attitude to him – kind, playful. Thus, it is not accidental that Pushkin widely used verbal participles and adverbial turns in this fragment. With their help, such a “painting” is achieved, that at least take a brush and paint this picture of the Russian winter that has begun. When we read this line, we not only see fluffy snow flying out from under the hooves, but we smell winter freshness. Thanks to the girlish parts (“putting the bug in the sled”, “transforming myself into a horse”), the author managed to create a visible image of a courtyard boy, who is happy with the coming of winter, and convey his attitude to him – kind, playful. Thus, it is not accidental that Pushkin widely used verbal participles and adverbial turns in this fragment. With their help, such a “painting” is achieved, that at least take a brush and paint this picture of the Russian winter that has begun. ) the author managed to create a visible image of a courtyard boy, who is happy with the coming of winter, and convey his attitude to him – kind, playful. Thus, it is not accidental that Pushkin widely used verbal participles and adverbial turns in this fragment. With their help, such a “painting” is achieved, that at least take a brush and paint this picture of the Russian winter that has begun. ) the author managed to create a visible image of a courtyard boy, who is happy with the coming of winter, and convey his attitude to him – kind, playful. Thus, it is not accidental that Pushkin widely used verbal participles and adverbial turns in this fragment. With their help, such a “painting” is achieved, that at least take a brush and paint this picture of the Russian winter that has begun.
