illustrating
- 1Present participle and gerund of illustrate.
The artist is illustrating a new edition of the classic novel.
Illustrating his point with a quick diagram, the lecturer won over the skeptics.
Note
A single spelling does two grammatical jobs here. As a participle it builds the progressive (she is illustrating a children's book) or opens a phrase (illustrating the point, he sketched a graph). As a gerund it names the work itself (illustrating pays poorly). The final e of illustrate drops before -ing. Older texts may use the form in obsolete senses: shedding light on something, or making someone illustrious.
illustrating is a form of illustrate
illustrate, verb: To clarify something by giving an example or comparison, or by serving as one. Full entry
- Forms
- illustrateillustrates he/she/itillustrating -ing formillustrated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- illustrate → illustrating: drop the e, add -ing
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