What part of speech is recounting?

Recounting can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. recounting is a verb, gerund of recount (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does recounting mean?

Definitions

Verb

recount - count again; "We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made"
recount - narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child"

Noun

recounting - an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"

Examples of recounting

#   Sentence  
1. noun His endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable.
2. verb Below the starry sky, Tom and Mary forgot about time, recounting their dreams to each other.
3. verb Yanni was recounting the story again.
4. verb We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made.
5. verb Here he began to recount his misfortune in detail.
6. verb Each single-author book is immensely particular, a story told as only one storyteller could recount it.
7. verb Tom never passed up the chance to recount how he caught exactly one fish more than John.
8. verb "It is one thing to write as a poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth."
9. verb Here he began to recount his misfortune in detail.
10. verb Each single-author book is immensely particular, a story told as only one storyteller could recount it.
11. verb Tom never passed up the chance to recount how he caught exactly one fish more than John.
12. verb "It is one thing to write as a poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth."
Sentence  
noun
His endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable.
verb
Below the starry sky, Tom and Mary forgot about time, recounting their dreams to each other.
Yanni was recounting the story again.
We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made.
Here he began to recount his misfortune in detail.
Each single-author book is immensely particular, a story told as only one storyteller could recount it.
Tom never passed up the chance to recount how he caught exactly one fish more than John.
"It is one thing to write as a poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth."
Here he began to recount his misfortune in detail.
Each single-author book is immensely particular, a story told as only one storyteller could recount it.
Tom never passed up the chance to recount how he caught exactly one fish more than John.
"It is one thing to write as a poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth."

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