Основы теории английского языка. Листунова Е.И. - 73 стр.

ing the attic (Eliît). After taking her elder cousin across, Fleur did
not land at once... (Galsworthy).
      But the perfect gerund may also be found after on and after:
      My bed at night was under another haystack, where I rested
comfortably, after having washed my blistered feet in a stream, and
dressed them as well as I was able, with some cool leaves (Dickens).
      The indefinite gerund is also often used after the verb to remem-
ber to indicate an action prior to the action of the finite verb:
      Don’t you remember your coming to the coach to meet me,
and my having breakfast here, and our riding out to Blunderstone
together...? (Dickens). ...I can still remember running down the san-
dhills in the morning (Cusack).
      But also: He did not remember ever having been in that room
(Galswîrthy).
      2. The gerund of transitive verbs expresses voice:
      Àñtive: writing, having written Passive: being ‘written, having
been written.
      Active:
      He was on the point or resuming his promenade... (Galsworthy).
The rain showed no sign of stopping (Maugham).
      Passive:
      ...The need of being loved, the strongest need in poor Maggie’s
nature, began to wrestle ‘with her pride... (Eliot). I felt very brave at
being left alone in the solitary house the protector of Em’ly and Mrs.
Qummidge... (Dickens).
      As the passive voice is of later development, we still find in
Modern English instances when the active form of the gerund is passive
in meaning; those constructions are survivals of the time when one and
the same form was used with active and passive meaning.
      The gerund is always used in the active form with passive mean-
ing after the verbs to need, to want, to require, to deserve; also after
the adjective worth:
      The car needs repairing (= being repaired), ...the house wants
painting (Galsworthy). We... saw all the plays that were worth seeing
(Dickens).




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