(j) Verbal Nouns, Infinitive, Gerund. The so-called Infinitive Mood to go, to see, to hear is really a verbal noun. The other verbal noun in English is called the Gerund, and ends in ing—going, seeing, hearing. Verbal nouns resemble verbs in that they can have a subject and an object, tenses and voices: they resemble a noun in that they themselves can be the subject or object of another verb. Examples of the use of the Infinitive. (1) As Subject—To err is human. Here to err is the subject of the