Vocabulary
Participles
Gerunds
Infinitives
Potpourri
100
This is a verb that looks like a verb, but doesn't act like one in a sentence.
What is a verbal?
100
Find the participle in this sentence: The trained guide went out into the snow storm to find the lost children.
What is trained?
100
A gerund almost always (about 99.7%) ends with this suffix.
What is -ing?
100
Infinitives include the base form of the verb and this two-letter word.
What is "to"?
100
This part of speech is a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
200
These are the two parts that make up an infinitive.
What are "to" and the base form of the verb?
200
A participle acts like this part of speech in a sentence.
What is an adjective?
200
True or false: The subject of a sentence can be a gerund.
What is true (because the subject of a sentence is a noun/pronoun)?
200
Find the infinitive in this sentence: Important materials to have include pen and paper.
What is "to have"?
200
Most participles end in -ing or -ed. This type of verb, however, creates participles that don't end with these suffixes. (750 pts without hint)
What are irregular verbs?
300
A gerund acts like this part of speech in a sentence.
What is a noun?
300
Participles usually (about 87% of the time) end with these two suffixes.
What are -ed and -ing?
300
A gerund acts like this part of speech in a sentence.
What is a noun?
300
True or false: This sentence has an infinitive: Woody and Jessie rode Bullseye to safety.
What is false? Ask Mrs. Smith for the 100 point bonus question.
300
Adjectives modify these two parts of speech.
What are nouns and pronouns?
400
This verbal acts like an adjective in a sentence.
What is a participle?
400
True or false: A participle can come before or after the noun/pronoun it modifies.
What is true?
400
Find the gerund in this sentence: A hobby can be something like swimming.
What is swimming?
400
Infinitives can act like this many different parts of speech in a sentence.
What is 3? (100 point bonus question - Name the 3 different parts of speech)
400
Draw the complete equation form of an infinitive.
What is Infinitive = "to" + "the base form of the verb"
500
Verbals can act like these three parts of speech in a sentence.
What are nouns, adjectives, and adverbs?
500
A participle modifies these two parts of speech.
What are nouns and pronouns?
500
A gerund is this prinicple part form of the verb. (Without hint: 1,000 points)
What is the present participle?
500
Create a sentence that contains an infinitive.
What is your creative creation?
500
Adverbs modify verbs, other adverbs, and this part of speech.
What are adjectives?
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