Adjective/Adverb phrases
Participles
Gerunds
Infinitives
Appositives
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Define adjective and adverb phrase. Give an example for each.
What is adjective phrase is a prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun. Example: The girl with the pink shirt is nice. An adverb phrase is a prepositional phrase that modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb. Example: She threw the ball on the ground.
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Define participle and give an example.
What is looks like a verb, but acts as an adjective. Example: The bouncing ball is blue.
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Define gerund and give an example.
What is looks like a verb, but is a noun. Example: Swimming is fun.
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Define infinitive and give an example.
What is to + verb. Example: Tabby loves to read.
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Define appositive and give an example.
What is noun or pronoun placed next to a noun or pronoun that restates or adds information. Mrs. Cieutat, the principal, brought yum yums.
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Identify the phrases. The girl with the brown hair was walking down the street.
What is adjective phrase:with brown hair. Adverb phrase: down the street.
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Identify the participle. Your jumping hamster looks like a rolli polli.
What is jumping.
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Identify the gerund. Celebrating birthdays is fun.
What is celebrating.
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Identify the infinitive: It is hard to choose a pet for the first time.
What is to choose.
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Identify the appositive: The disc jockey introduced the guest, a popular guitarist.
What is a popular guitarist.
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Identify the phrase as an adjective phrase or an adverb phrase and identify the word it modifies. The man with a mask frightened the children.
What is adjective phrase: with a mask modifies man.
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Identify the participle. When she is running she watches passing cars and jumping rabbits.
What is passing and jumping.
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Identify the gerund: On their vacations, the Reynolds discovered snorkeling.
What is snorkeling.
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Identify the infinitive: She loves cheeseburgers but likes to eat just one side of the bun.
What is to eat.
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Find the appositive: The closets of the house, a deserted mansion, contained human bones.
What is a deserted mansion.
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Identify the phrase and the word(s) it modifies. She answered the question with a smile.
What is adverb phrase: with a smile. It modifies answered.
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Identify the participle, participial phrase and what it modifies. The dropped marbles rolled all over the floor.
What is the participle is dropped, the phrase is the dropped marbles, and it is modifying marbles.
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Identify the gerund: His performance gives acting a gad name.
What is acting.
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Identify the infinitive and state if it is the adjective or adverb: The director of the camp is the person to notify.
What is to notify, adjective.
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Identify the appositives: 1. An aviator, the pilot of a World War II Spitfire, explained the structure of a plane to us. 2. Franklin's Fortune is a ghost town, a former mining camp.
What is the pilot of a World War II Spitfire 2. a former mining camp
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Identify the phrase as adjective or adverb and identify the word(s) it modifies. The new player performed with great skill!
What is adverb phrase: with great skill and it modifies performed.
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Identify the participles and what they modify in the following sentence. 1. In the morning, she found tarnished medal on the floor. 2. Restarting the computer fixed the broken Mac.
What is 1. tarnished is the participle and it modifies medal. 2. broken is the participle and it modifies Mac.
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Identify the gerund and the gerund phrase: His favorite activity is swinging from the trees.
What is swinging from the trees.
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Identify the infinitive and decide if it is being the adverb or adjective. Afraid to speak, he looked at his shoes.
What is to speak is being an adverb.
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Identify the appositives: 1. They named her treasurer, an influential position. 2. Bob gave her, his favorite aunt, a ticket to the concert.
What is 1. an influential position 2. his favorite aunt.
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