A verb form functioning as a noun that ends in -ing.
What is a gerund?
100
Identify the gerund:
I'm sure all of your planning will pay off in the end.
What is planning?
100
Identify the participle:
The wildflowers were swaying in the breeze.
What is swaying?
100
Identify the infinitives:
I wanted to go, but my mom said I had to wait.
What are:
to go
and
to wait?
100
Identify the verbal or verbals and tell what type each one is:
The lost locket lay hidden under a stack of letters.
What are the participles lost and hidden? (Both are irregular past participles.)
200
A verb form functioning as an adjective that ends in -ing (include the tense).
What is a present participle?
200
Identify the gerund phrase:
Completing the assignment was trickier than he thought.
What is completing the assignment?
200
Identify the participle:
The screaming baby startled everyone on the bus.
What is screaming?
200
Identify the infinitive:
I knew the material so well, I didn't have to study at all!
What is to study?
200
Identify the verbal or verbals and tell what type each one is:
The frightened child sat shivering under a tree, unable to speak.
What are:
frightened (past participle)
and
shivering (present participle)?
300
A verb form functioning as either a noun, an adjective, or an adverb that usually consists of to + a present tense verb.
What is an infinitive?
300
Identify the gerund:
Did you know that swimming is one of the most effective exercises?
What is swimming?
300
Identify the participles:
Laughing, the girl told the frightened boy that the "ghost" was just a sheet hanging on the clothesline.
What are:
laughing
frightened
hanging
300
Identify the infinitive phrase:
You must always strive to do your best.
What is "to do your best"?
300
Identify the verbal phrase and tell what type it is:
Caring for the new baby seemed like the most natural thing in the world.
What is a gerund phrase - caring for the new baby?
400
A verb form functioning as an adjective that ends in -d or -ed, unless it is irregular (include the tense).
What is a past participle?
400
Identify the gerund phrase:
The charming young man loved dancing with all the young ladies.
What is dancing with all the young ladies? (Charming is a participle.)
400
Identify the participial phrase:
Waking to the buzz of the alarm clock, Marcus nearly jumped out of his skin.
What is waking to the buzz of the alarm clock?
400
Identify the infinitive phrases in this sentence:
You would've had to have lived through it to truly understand what I went through.
What are "to have lived through it" and "to truly understand"
400
Identify the verbal or verbals and tell what type each one is:
Trembling, the little boy opened the creaking door to take a peak inside.
What are:
trembling and creaking (present participles)
and
to take (infinitive)?
500
This is what you call a phrase that includes a participle.
What is a participial phrase?
500
identify the gerund phrase:
Ben's rudest habit is eating my leftover pizza.
What is "eating my leftover pizza"?
500
Identify the participial phrase:
Grandma's quilt was draped neatly over the rocking chair.
What is "draped neatly over the rocking chair."
500
Identify the infinitives:
I went to the store to order a cake from the bakery to give to my mom for her birthday.
What are:
to order
and
to give
500
Identify the verbal or verbals and tell what type each one is:
In an attempt to sneak in unnoticed, I went around to the back door to see if it was unlocked.
What are:
to sneak and to see - infinitives
and
unlocked - past participle