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Gerunds
Participle
Verb, Gerund,
or Participle?
Phrases
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2 parts: A gerund can act as what?
What does a gerund always end in?
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Subject, DO, IO, PN, OP
Always ends in “ing”
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Name the gerund and tell what it
is acting as in the following
sentence:
After building her strength, she
could walk with a little help.
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Building - OP
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Name the gerund and tell what it is
acting as in the following sentence:
From her mother, she learned
balancing.
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Balancing - DO
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Name the gerund phrase and tell what
it is acting as in the following
sentence:
Horseback riding has many benefits
for people with disabilities.
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Horseback riding - Subject
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Name the gerund phrase and tell
what it is acting as in the following
sentence:
Cory’s hobby is reading mystery
novels.
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Reading mystery novels - PN
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2 Parts: A participle acts as
what?
What does a participle end in?
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Participles act as adjectives
They end in – “ing”, “ed”, or
change spelling
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Name the participle and tell whether it
is present or past in the following
sentence:
In the finished commercial, the dog
disappears right through the cabinet
door.
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Finished - Past
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Name the participle/participial phrase
and tell whether it is present or past in
the following sentence:
Have you seen the commercial
that shows a dog chasing a
squirrel?
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Chasing a squirrel - present
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Name the participle/participial phrase and
tell whether it is present or past in the
following sentence:
Staring at the door, the dog waited for the
trainer to open it.
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Staring at the door - present
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Name the participle/participial phrase and
tell whether it is present or past in the
following sentence:
The chosen dog earned a million
dollars to star in that commercial.
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Chosen - past
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Many TV commercials feature
acting animals.
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Acting-present participle
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Training any type of animal requires
patience.
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Training-gerund (subject)
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The dog dashed across the
kitchen.
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Dashed-verb
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Meowing, the cat stared at its empty
bowl.
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Meowing-present participle
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Revise the following paragraph by
substituting gerunds and participles for
the underlined words.
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1. To have a dog or gerbil was out of the
question for Duane Wright. He had trouble
breathing whenever he came in contact with fur.
So he found Goliath, a female iguana. She
seemed happy 2.while to keep Duane company.
One night, Duane stopped breathing. With her
sharp claws Goliath started scratching hard
3.with the hope of to wake Duane. She also
began 4. to whip his face with her scaly tail.
Eventually, Duane began to breathe again. Who
would believe that an iguana would come
5.around to rescue a man?
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Name verbal/verbal phrase, if it is
gerund/participle, and tell what it is
functioning as in the following
sentence:
Strolling around the neighborhood
pleased Priscilla, a three-month-old
piglet.
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Strolling around the neighborhood –
gerund phrase
subject
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Name verbal/verbal phrase, if it is
gerund/participle, and tell what it is
functioning as in the following sentence:
Walking, Victoria would wave to the
neighbors.
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walking – present participle
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Name verbal/verbal phrase, if it is
gerund/participle, and tell what it is
functioning as in the following sentence:
Priscilla liked swimming with the family
dogs.
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Swimming with the family dogs
Gerund phrase
do
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Name verbal/verbal phrase, if it is
gerund/participle, and tell what it is
functioning as in the following sentence:
Grabbing Priscilla’s leash, the boy
held on tightly.
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Grabbing Priscilla’s leash –
participial phrase
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Name verbal/verbal phrase, if it is
gerund/participle, and tell what it is
functioning as in the following
sentence:
The 45-pound piglet began pulling
the 90-pound boy back to shore.
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Pulling the 90-pound boy back
to shore – gerund DO
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What are the simple
tenses?
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Present, past, future
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What is the present perfect
tense of walk?
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Has walked
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A preposition needs to be
how many letters to be
capitalized in a title? (if
it’s not the first/last word)
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Five letters
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What is the difference
between a hyphen and
a dash?
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A hyphen separates words - a
dash separated phrases or
clauses
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Fill in the following charts
present
Present past
participle
Past
participle
Present
perfect
Future
perfect
bring
sink
present
bring
sink
Past
perfect
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present
Present past
participle
Past
participle
bring
is bringing brought
sink
is sinking
sank
has
brought
has sunk
present
Present
perfect
Past
perfect
Future
perfect
bring
has
brought
had
brought
will have
brought
sink
has sunk
had sunk
will have
sunk
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What type of sentence has 1
Ind. Clause and one or more
Dep. clauses?
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complex
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What type of conjunction starts a
dependent clause?
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subordinating
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Name the coordinating
conjunctions known as
FANBOYS.
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For, and, nor, but, or, yet,
so
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What is the question we should
always ask ourselves when we
are trying to determine if a verb is
active or passive voice?
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Is the subject doing
anything?
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She has (lain, laid) the wreath on
the door.
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laid
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Verbs
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3 parts
List five helping verbs.
What is the difference in a
predicate noun and a direct
object?
Which helping verbs are used in
present perfect, past prefect, and
future perfect tenses?
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