A verbal is a verb form used as some other part of speech. There are three kinds of verbals: gerunds, participles, and infinitives.
A gerund always ends in ing and is used as a noun.
Example:
Eating is fun.
A participle is used as an adjective and ends various ways. A present participle always ends with ing as does the gerund, but remember that it is an adjective. A past participle ends with ed, n, or irregularly.
Examples:
played, broken, brought, sung, seeing, having seen, being seen, seen, having been seen
An infinitive is to plus a verb form. It can be a noun, an adjective, or an adverb.
Examples:
to be, to see, to be seen, to be eaten
Instructions: Find the verbals in the following sentences.
1. Sometimes I need to work more effectively.
2. Surreptitiously slipping the answers to his friend, the boy looked
innocently at the ceiling.
3. Why won't you try to be nicer?
4. I hope we never become too old to learn.
5. Having forgotten her lines, Jena fled from the stage.
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down.
Answers:
1. Sometimes I need to work more effectively.
2. Surreptitiously slipping the answers to his friend, the boy looked
innocently at the ceiling.
3. Why won't you try to be nicer?
4. I hope we never become too old to learn.
5. Having forgotten her lines, Jena fled from the stage.
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