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Name that Verbal
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What Am I?
Misc.
100
Name the infinitive phrase in the sentence: You must go to Harry's to get good ice cream.
What is "to get good ice cream."
100
I am the voice in a sentence in which the subject is the "doer" of the action (verb).
What is active voice?
100
I wrote "The Open Boat"
Who is Stephen Crane?
100
I am "to" plus the base form.
What is an infinitive?
100
I can be either an infinitive or a past or present participle.
What is a verbal?
200
Parts of sentences that have been incorrectly punctuated as though they were complete sentences.
What is a fragment?
200
Name the past participle phrase in the sentence: Ice cream eaten too quickly gives people headaches.
What is "eaten too quickly"?
200
I wrote "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
Who is Bret Harte?
200
I can be used either as a subject, object of a verb, object of a preposition or a predicate nominative.
What is a gerund phrase?
200
The sole function of participial phrases.
What is to modify nouns?
300
Two independent clauses incorrectly joined without any punctuation at all.
What is a fused sentence?
300
A group of words that cannot stand alone as a grammatically complete sentence.
What is a fragment?
300
My pen name was O. Henry. What was my real name?
What is William Sidney Porter?
300
A verb in either the present or past tense form.
What is a "tensed" verb?
300
Name the problem when a writer does not correctly join two separate sentences.
What is a comma splice?
400
I am a verb form used as a noun.
What is a gerund?
400
An error that occurs when writers incorrectly attempt to combine two sentences.
What is a fused sentence?
400
I wrote "The Nightingale and the Rose.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
400
I am the form of a verb that is used as the entry in the dictionary.
What is the base form?
400
Participial phrases that do not actually modify the nouns they were meant to modify.
What is a dangling modifier?
500
Phrases headed by verbals.
What is a verbal phrase?
500
Name the problem with this sentence: Wrapped in beautiful paper, Scrooge gave him his Christmas surprise.
What is a dangling participle?
500
I wrote "The Blue Pantomime"
Who is Arthur Quiller-Couch?
500
I can be used as an adjective.
What is past participle (past participle phrase)
500
Two ways of forming the past form of a verb or past participle.
What is regular and irregular.