Infinitives
True or False: An infinitive always begins with the word "to."
What is "True"?
True or False: Gerunds can only appear as the subject of a sentence.
What is "False"?
rue or False: A participle can end in -ing or -ed.
What is "True"?
True or False: Prepositional phrases can act as adjectives or adverbs.
What is "True"?
rue or False: An appositive phrase must be set off by commas.
What is "False"? (Only non-restrictive appositives require commas.)
This is the infinitive phrase in the sentence: "I want to swim in the ocean this summer."
What is "to swim in the ocean"?
A gerund always acts as this part of speech.
What is a noun?
The participle in this sentence acts as what part of speech? "The barking dog woke the neighbors."
What is an adjective?
Prepositional phrases begin with a preposition and end with this.
What is a noun or pronoun?
The appositive in this sentence renames which noun? "My dog, a golden retriever, loves to play fetch."
What is "my dog"?
Identify the infinitive phrase in this sentence: "To read every night is her goal."
What is "To read every night"?
This is the gerund in the sentence: "Swimming is my favorite sport."
What is "swimming"?
Identify the participle in this sentence: "The broken vase lay on the floor."
What is "broken"?
Identify the prepositional phrase in this sentence: "She sat on the bench."
What is "on the bench"?
Identify the appositive in this sentence: "Mr. Smith, our science teacher, assigned a new project."
What is "our science teacher"?
Rewrite the sentence with an infinitive phrase: "He studied because he wanted better grades."
What is "He studied to get better grades"?
Identify the gerund phrase in this sentence: "She enjoys reading mystery novels."
What is "reading mystery novels"?
Find the participial phrase in this sentence: "Running through the park, she tripped on a root."
What is "Running through the park"?
Find the prepositional phrase in this sentence: "The book on the table is mine."
What is "on the table"?
Combine these two sentences using an appositive: "The cheetah is the fastest land animal. It can run up to 70 mph."
What is "The cheetah, the fastest land animal, can run up to 70 mph"?
An infinitive phrase can act as these three parts of speech.
What are a noun, an adjective, and an adverb?
Rewrite this sentence with a gerund phrase: "He likes to run every morning."
What is "He likes running every morning"?
Rewrite this sentence by adding a participial phrase: "The boy crossed the finish line."
"The boy, exhausted and smiling, crossed the finish line"?
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Rewrite this sentence with an additional prepositional phrase: "She walked slowly."
What is "She walked slowly through the park"?
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Rewrite the sentence by adding an appositive: "Marie Curie discovered radium."
What is "Marie Curie, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, discovered radium"?
Responses may vary