Past Modals
(talk)
The police know who committed the crime. Someone must __________ ________ to them.
have talked
Clauses must have at least two parts of speech: a(n) __________ and a(n) ___________.
subject/noun and verb
"Swimming is great for your health."
In this example, the gerund is the _________ of the sentence.
subject
Cookings meat until there is no more pink helps prevent food poisoning.
Cooking meat...
A situation in which we don't know a piece of key information, such as who did something or how it was done.
mystery
(leave) The killer may _____ _____ some clues.
have left
Identify the noun clause:
"No one understands why ancient humans drew on cave walls."
why ancient humans drew on cave walls
Gerunds are always __________, never plural.
singular
To sit on the couch all the time is not good for your heart.
Sitting on the couch...
unknown
uncertain
Fix the mistake:
That author might have wrote some books under a different name.
written
In the sentence "I want to know how the detective solved the crime," the noun clause is the ______________ of the verb "know."
object
How do you create a negative gerund?
Add the word "not" before the gerund.
Sleeping are one of the most important ways you can take care of your body.
Sleeping is one of the...
To find out who committed a crime.
solve
must
Name 5 words that often begin noun clauses.
Who
What
Where
When
Why
or How
When do you double the final consonant in the base form of a gerund?
when the last three letters of the base form are consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC).
Heatting the pan before adding eggs is a good idea.
heating
A fictional person who doesn't exist in real life, but appears in things such as movies, plays, and TV shows.
character
Unscramble this sentence:
before visited could aliens have Earth
Aliens could have visited Earth before.
Rewrite this sentence with a noun clause (rather than an adjective clause):
I needed to know the identity of the person who committed the crime.
I needed to know who committed this crime.
Between gerunds and infinitives, only gerunds can be the object of a _____________.
preposition
I need to eating more vegetables.
I need to eat more vegetables.
Evidence that tells us that something is true with 100% certainty.
proof