Verbals (Mostly Participles and Gerunds)
What is a gerund?
A verb used as a noun with -ing
Is this a predicate nominative or a predicate adjective? "She feels sad because her cat ran away."
Predicate Adjective
Are there more men or more women in the world?
Women!
Where does a colon go in a list?
At the beginning
Which of these contains an infinitive:
a. I want to eat a whole elephant.
b. Eating a whole elephant sounds fun!
c. The eating boy looked up from his plate of elephant meat.
a
What type of verbal is "broken"
Past Participle
Is this PA or PN? "Aaron is a happy, funny, crazy boy."
Predicate Nominative
Who wrote The Iliad? (Very famous story about the Trojan War)
Homer
Secret Treasure!
Each group chooses a different number between 1 and 15. Closest wins the points!
10
Which of these contains an appositive?
a. The man is a burly lumberjack who chopped down a thousand trees.
b. The man, a burly lumberjack, chopped down a thousand trees
c. The man became burly when he started a career as a tree-chopping lumberjack.
b
What is the problem with this sentence? "Hanging out with friends, the video game wouldn't work!"
Dangling Participle
Secret Trap!
Each group chooses a different number between 1 and 10, closest loses the points
2
What is the lowest point you could go on Earth without digging?
The Marianas Trench (seven miles/eleven kilometers underwater)
When do you use a semicolon in a list?
When the list items have commas, such as "city, state"
Is this infinitive acting as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb?
"I want a book to study."
Adjective
Which of these is not an possible ending to a past participle: (There could be more than one!)
-d, -ed, -r, -er, -n, -en
-r, -er
Name 4 different linking verbs
?
Which word has the most definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary?
"set" has 144 definitions
Which of the two punctuation types can be used with a FANBOYS conjunction?
Neither!
What part of speech is the infinitive in this sentence: "He studied to see if he could get 100."
Adverb
How many verbals are in this sentence? "Eating boiled noodles is my favorite thing to do, I would crawl through a burning house for some delicious noodles."
4
Why isn't this a predicate adjective? "He felt happiness in the air."
"Happiness" is a noun, making this a transitive verb with a direct object.
Thief!
Each team chooses a different number between 1-20. Closest gets to take the points from another team!
1
What is the difference between a colon between two independent clauses and a semicolon between two independent clauses?
The colon emphasizes, the semicolon shows a relationship.
What is the difference between an appositive and an predicate nominative?
In order to link to the rest of the sentence, appositives use commas and predicate nominatives use linking verbs