Gerunds and Gerund Phrases
The two words that make up an infinitive are these.
What is to + a base form of a verb?
A participle is a verb form that acts as this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
The definition of a verbal is this.
What is a word formed from a verb that imitates another part of speech?
Identify the verbal and the function.
Hiking without the proper equipment can be dangerous.
What is a gerund?
What is the subject?
An infinitive phrase can act as what three parts of speech?
What is a noun, an adjective and an adverb?
Name the three types of verbals.
What are gerunds, participles, and infinitives?
Identify the verbal and the function.
Who is jumping? Can it be the scampering rodents?
What is a participle?
What is an adjective?
Identify the gerund/s in the following sentence: John likes fencing and jogging.
What is fencing and jogging?
Identify the infinitive in the sentence: Sally walked to the park to meet her friends for a picnic.
What is to meet?
True or False: A participle modifies nouns and pronouns.
What is True?
A verbal can act as ...
What are nouns, adjectives, or adverbs?
Identify the verbal phrase and the function.
Trotting up to the fence, the horse hoped for a carrot or apple from the children.
What is trotting up to the fence?
What is a participle?
Identify the gerund phrase and how it functions in the sentence:
Calling her sister a loser was a mistake.
What is Calling her sister?
What is the subject?
Identify the function in the sentence: Sally walked to the park to meet her friends for a picnic.
What is adverb? (answers why)
Identify the participle(s): The deserted building appeared old and dilapidated.
What is deserted and dilapidated?
True or False: Verbals are verbs.
Identify the verbal and the function.
Writing a novel must take quite a long time.
What is the gerund phrase writing a novel?
What is the subject?
Identify the gerund phrase and its function: Mark Twain is famous for writing the novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
What is writing the novel?
What is the object of the preposition?
Identify the infinitive phrase and its function in the following sentence: I want to read that old book from Grandpa's shelf.
What is to read that old book?
What is a noun and direct object?
Identify the participle phrase: Frightened by the sight, they froze in their tracks.
What is frightened by the sight?
What type of verbal is the word "smiling" in the following sentence: Smiling, he hugged the happy dog.
What is a participle?
Identify the verbal and the function.
To believe in life on mars was common among non-scientists.
What is an infinitive to believe in life on Mars?
What is a noun functioning as the subject?