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Verbals
and
Verbal Phrases
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Verbal
• A word that is from a verb and that acts
as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb.
• Candy looked tired yesterday
• Crying is lame
Gerund
• A verbal that ends in ing and acts as a
noun.
• Inventing can be dangerous.
Gerund Phrase
• A gerund plus its modifiers and
complements.
• Writing Frankenstein must have given
Mary Shelly goose bumps.
Using Gerund
Phrases
• As long as the gerund or gerund phrase is
not acting as a verb….it is a verbal.
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Underline the gerund phrase.
subject
Calling the monster Frankenstein is a mistake.
Predicate noun
Frankenstein’s error was creating
the monster.
Direct object
I like watching horror movies
object of a preposition
The monster was responsible for killing three
people.
Participle
• Verb form that acts as an adjective
• There are two kinds of participles.
• Present Participle
– Always ends in ing
The eerily creaking door swung open.
Participle
• There are two kinds of participles.
• Past Participle
– Always (well almost always) ends in ed
The deserted building was old and decrepit.
Fallen bricks blocked the entry.
Participle Phrase
• A participial phrase consists of a
participle plus its modifiers and
complements.
• The entire phrase modifies a noun or
pronoun
Participle Phrase
• They spied a shape lurking in the dark
shadows.
• Frightened by the sight, they stopped
cold.
Participle Phrase
or
Prepositional Phrase?
• If a verb follows to it is a participle phrase.
• If a noun or pronoun follows to it is a
prepositional phrase
ING words
• What’s that scampering sound?
• It’s the scampering of rodents.
• Mice are scampering beneath the
floorboards.
• Identify the participle, gerund, and verb.
Infinitive
• A verb form that usually begins with
the word to and acts as a noun,
adjective , or adverb.
• Mars is a place some people want
to visit.
Infinitive Phrase
• An infinitive plus its modifiers and
complements.
• To believe in life on Mars was common
in the 1930s.
• Martians might use flying saucers to
invade Earth.
• I took time to read an old science
fiction book.
Participle Phrase
or
Prepositional Phrase?
1. Of all the planets, Mars is most similar to
Earth.
2. It was easy to imagine creatures on
Mars.
3. Would you like to travel to Mars?
4. I prefer to go to libraries for information.
Using Infinitive
Phrases
Underline Infinitive Phrases and identify as nouns, adverbs, or adjectives.
subject
• To colonize Mars is a real Possibility.
• Science fiction writers wrote about little
green Martians to scare readers.
adverb
Predicate noun
• My dream is to live on Mars
• Even some scientists believed Mars
to be inhabited. adjective
• Pg 171 – A 1-5
– Write down gerund phrase
– Underline gerund
• Pg 174- A 1-5
– Write participial phrase and underline
participle.
– Do Part B
• Pg 177-A 1-5
– Write down infinitive phrase
– underline infinitive.