PPT-Gerund & Infinitive

The Gerund Uses 1 Subject of a verb Smoking is bad for you 2 Object of verb Do you like smoking 3The complement of to be His favorite activity is watching television 4 After prepositions She is very good . The Gerund Recognize a gerund Every gerund, without exception, ends in ing . Gerunds are not, however, all that easy to identify. The problem is that all present participles also end in ing . What i Gerunds. Gerunds . are . verbals. that function as nouns and have an . –. ing. . ending. Since gerunds are . derived from . verbs and have an . –. ing. . ending, they do express action. However, because gerunds . A verbal is a verb that is being used as another part of speech rather than a verb.. There are three types of Verbals. Participles. Gerunds. Infinitives. Examples . The frightened cat scratched my eye.. ing. ) Form of Verbs in English. By: Perry Crain. The Gerund Form of Verbs…. The . gerund. form of a verb has the letters “-. ing. ” at the end of the verb.. The . gerund. form of verbs is used to show . An infinitive is formed from the word “to” together with the base form (present tense) of a . verb. .. to skate. to stop. to use. to write. to shimmer. to see. Remember. :. An infinitive is the word “to” plus a . B1. . ‘. When . you . are tempted to give up. , your . . breakthrough . is probably just around the corner. .. ’. . Joyce . Meyer. ‘. You . can fool . some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you . VERBALS. Gerunds, Participles and Infinitives. . L. .8.1.a . Verbals. Homework:. Overview. Monday: What . is the function of a . gerund?. Tuesday: What . is the function of a . participle?. Wednesday: What . Chapter 14. p. . 440. PHRASE. A . phrase . is a group of related words that is used as a single part of speech and that does not contain both a verb and its subject. . Example. Could have been . [no subject]. OH HOW FUN! . definition. VERBAL IS A VERB FORM USED AS ANOTHER PART OF SPEECH. TYPES OF VERBALS. . 1. GERUNDS. . 2 . INFINITIVES. 3. PARTICIPLES. GERUNDS. A VERB FORM END IN . ING. AND IS USED AS A NOUN. 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. VS.. participial . phrases. 2. To talk about actions, we must give them names. We give actions names by adding –. ing. to verbs, thus changing the verbs into nouns which we call by the special name of gerunds. gerund and. a gerund phrase used as the object of a preposition. Participial Phrases. 2. To talk about actions, we must give them names. We give actions names by adding –. ing. to verbs, thus changing the verbs into nouns which we call by the special name of gerunds.. Participial Phrases. 2. . Gerund phr.. Buying the paint on sale . saved . us twenty dollars.. Subject Verb. . Participle phr.. Thinking it was cold,. . I picked . up the hot pan.. Infinitive. Verbal Phrase = . A phrase that is centered around a . verb form. .. This . verb form . is . NOT. used as a verb in the sentence. It is used as a . noun. , . adjective. . or . adverb. ..