PPT-ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS WITH INFINITIVES & GERUNDS

By AsstProf Muayad R Habib Dept of English English Grammar for All 3 rd Year Students College of Basic Education Mar 2020 ADJECTIVES WITH INFINITIVES amp GERUNDS. Focus on Academic English. Why study them?. Gerunds and infinitives are common features of both spoken and written English. A person who tries . __________ . English without . __________ . gerund and infinitives will produce very unnatural-sounding sentences. . From the UWF Writing Lab’s 101 . Grammar Mini-Lessons Series. Mini-Lesson #89. A gerund is the . –. ing. form of a verb and is used a noun.. Winning the lottery surprised them.. Like nouns, gerunds are modified by possessive forms of nouns and pronouns.. The rat, gigantic, crazy-eyed and straggly, bared its sharp, pointed fangs and devoured the cheese.. Adjectives are words that modify, describe, . or add detail to nouns and pronouns. . Adjectives help the reader visualize what the . VERBALS Gerunds A gerund is a verbal that ends in – ing and functions as a noun . It can take on the role of a subject, direct object, subject complement, and object of preposition. Gerund Diamond-shaped poem with 7 lines:. Line 1: 1 NOUN-A . Line 2: 2 ADJECTIVES-A. Line 3: 3 GERUNDS-A (verb + -ing). Line 4: 2 NOUNS-A + 2 NOUNS-B. Line 5: 3 GERUNDS-B (verb + -ing). Line 6: 2 ADJECTIVES-B. Ways to make your writing BEEFY .  . When is a verb not a verb?. When it tries to imitate another part of speech!. Sometimes verbs do not act like verbs. Instead they act like nouns, adjectives and adverbs. When they do this we call them verbals. There are three main kinds of verbals: . From the UWF Writing Lab’s 101 . Grammar Mini-Lessons Series. Mini-Lesson #89. A gerund is the . –. ing. form of a verb and is used a noun.. Winning the lottery surprised them.. Like nouns, gerunds are modified by possessive forms of nouns and pronouns.. Adjectives . describe people, places, things, ideas, etc. They have only one form in all genders, singular and plural, and can be placed before nouns or after verbs such as . appear, keep, make, feel, sound, smell, look, taste. What is a Verbal?. A . verbal. . is the . form of a verb used as a noun, . adjective, . or adverb.. Identifying verbals . in a sentence can . be somewhat . tricky – verbals are NOT . verbs. !. Gerunds. . www.toondoo.com - check it out . JL. What is a Noun?. A noun is a word used to name a . person. , a . thing. , a . animal. , a . place. , or an . idea. . . Person. Animal. Idea. Place. JL. Learning Targets:. LT1: I can identify . gustar. with infinitive.. LT2: I can use . gustar. with infinitives in a sentence.. Gustar. with Infinitives . An . infinitive. tells the meaning of the verb without naming any subject or tense. . Definition. - A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing or idea. Nouns can be the subject of a sentence and/or the object of a preposition.. Nouns can be classified into 6 different types:. What . are the rules for whether it is a noun or a verb or something else?. S1: . It’s if you can touch it.. S2: . Can you touch it?. S3: . Can you go to it?. T: . Can you touch hockey? But . hockey. nouns and . rules about nouns that the children . have been . introduced to . already, Also, colour nouns will be recapped and the . knowledge . of adjectives, and the rules used with adjectives and nouns together will be extended..