Verbals
Verbals are participles, gerunds, and infinitives.
What are verbals?
Verbs express action or a state of being.
What are verbs?
Adjective
What can a participle function as?
Noun
What can a gerund function as?
Taking the test, the students looked anxious.
What is a participle phrase?
Some verbals act as adjectives.
What can verbals act as?
Verbas are finite - they can be inflected.
Why are verbs finite?
The past form of any verb when preceded by the auxiliary "have".
What is a past participle?
You can replace a gerund with IT or SOMETHING.
What is IT/SOMETHING?
The players could not avoid making mistakes.
What is a gerund?
Some verbals act as nouns.
What can verbals act as?
Verbs can be inflected/ change according to person, number, and tense.
What does inflected mean?
The -ing form of any verb when preceded by the aux. BE.
What is a present participle?
A. Playing golf, the pro hurt his shoulder.
B. Playing golf led to the pro's shoulder injury.
What is B?
The crowd was listening carefully to the speaker.
What is past tense continuous?
Verblas cannot be inflected.
What does nonfinite mean?
Irregular verb
What is "become"?
The new machine was printing at top speed.
What is a present participle?
A. The players could not avoid making mistakes.
B. They were shouting at each other in frustration.
What is A?
Giving her parents headaches is Alison's pastime.
What is a gerund phrase?
Are walking
Which one is the verbal in the sentence: "The students are walking into the classroom" ?
Verbs can express a state of being.
What are linking verbs
She handed me a resume printed on yellow paper?
What is a past participle?
The gerund is diagramed on a pedestal with a step.
How can you diagram a gerund?
Left on the table, the executive forgot her briefcase.