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Grammar rules for using gerunds and infinitives with examples. GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES – They are sometimes referred to as verb complements, and here’s how they are used in a sentence. A gerund is a ...

This has been a banner month for X. Last week, the social network’s built-in chatbot, Grok, became strangely obsessed with false claims about “white genocide” in South Africa—allegedly because someone ...

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