Participles
What ending a gerund must always have and what part of speech it pretends to be.
What is -ing and a noun?
What is the second noun?
The preposition in front of an infinitive
What is to?
What makes a verbal.
What is a verb pretending to be something else?
The two tenses of participle and their endings
What is past (ed) and present (ing)?
The gerund in this sentence:
Surfing is a sport in the summer olympics.
What is surfing?
The appositive in this sentence:
The holiday, Christmas, is my favorite time of the year.
What is Christmas?
The infinitive in this sentence:
The king asked you to solve the riddle
Which of the concepts we learned about that isn't a verbal.
What is an appositive?
The participle in this sentence:
The falling snow really was making the road slippery.
What is falling?
The gerund phrase in this sentence:
My very poor dancing made the students laugh harder than anything.
What is my very poor dancing?
The appositive phrase in this sentence:
Wicked, the movie made by John Chu, won an Oscar for production.
What is the movie made by John Chu?
The infinitive phrase in this sentence:
You didn't choose to forget to study for the test.
What is to forget to study for the test?
(WOW)?
The participle phrase in this sentence and its tense:
A really ruined shirt needed to be thrown away.
What is: Really ruined and past participle?
The gerund phrase in this sentence:
Something Rita's grandmother is always telling her is to tuck in her shirt.
What is none?
Gordon Ramsey, the meanest judge on Master Chef, is actually very sweet.
What is:
Gordon Ramsey, the meanest judge on Master Chef, is actually very sweet.
The girl was foolish to lose her bag on the bench.
What is:
The girl was foolish to lose her bag on the bench.
List all the verbals and their jobs.
What are participles (adjectives), gerunds (nouns), and infinitives (adj, adv, and nouns)?
Write the whole sentence, underline the participle phrase, and draw an arrow to the noun it modifies:
The ship named Titanic sank slowly after it hit the iceberg.
What is
The ship named Titanic sank slowly after it hit the iceberg. (Arrow to ship)
Write out the sentence and underline the gerund phrase:
Tyler hates your worst kind of cooking because you burn everything.
What is:
Tyler hates your worst kind of cooking because you burn everything.
Write out the sentence and underline the whole appositive phrase:
Last period, the worst one of the day, never seems to go fast enough.
What is:
Last period, the worst one of the day, never seems to go fast enough.
Write the sentence, underline the phrase, and write its job:
The thought to go to the moon would lead to scientific marvels.
What is:
The thought to go to the moon would lead to scientific marvels. Adjective?
The bolded verbal's type:
You are good at pretending to be a politician.
What is a gerund?