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What is a verb?
An action or state of being.
What is the purpose of a gerund?
To be used as a noun.
What does a modifier do?
Describes another word, clause, or phrase.
What is the subject of a sentence?
The part of the sentence that is doing or being.
What does a gerund end with?
-ing
What is a verbal?
A word that looks like a verb, but does not act like a verb.
What is included in a gerund phrase?
A gerund and its modifiers.
Give two examples of a time cue.
Last week, tomorrow, yesterday, next month, etc.
Find the subject in the following sentence: Being the principal of a school requires a lot of time and dedication.
Being a principal of a school
What is the direct object of this sentence: Jimmy cooked pasta for dinner last night.
Direct object: pasta
Past participles end in...
-d or -ed
What are the two types of participles?
Past and present
What word indicates a negative infinitive?
Not
What is the indirect object in this sentence: My sister bought her cat a new bed.
Cat
What does an infinitive being with?
To
What is the purpose of a participle?
To be used as an adjective.
Present participles end in...
-ing
Who do everything together.
What are the three possible functions of an infinitive?
Noun, adjective, or adverb
Is this a gerund or participle?: We went to see the fastest swimming shark in the world.
Participle.
What type of verb has a direct object?
Transitive
An indirect object tells us ___________ or __________ an action happens.
Whom or for whom
A direct object tells ______ or ______ about a sentence.
Who? or What?
Indirect objects come between the _____ and the ______.
Verb and direct object
What kind of verb does not have an object?
Intransitive