Grammar
Gerund examples in literature, proverbs and quotations
Proverbs and Sayings
1. Comment on
the use of the gerund in the following
proverbs and sayings. Memorize them.
- Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing him.
- He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.
- By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
- In doing we learn.
- Learn to swim by swimming.
- Think twice before speaking.
- Saying and doing are two things (Saying is one thing and doing another.)
- Doing is better than saying.
- The word spoken is past recalling.
- Seeing is believing.
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