Quiz for Lessons 236 - 240 - Parts of the Sentence - Verbals

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Instructions: Find the gerunds, gerund phrases, participles, participial phrases, infinitives, or infinitive phrases in these sentences, tell what kind of verbal they are, and how they are used.

1. Are you too busy to help us?

2. The crying child rushed to his mother.

3. He jumped from the cliff without looking down.

4. Walking is good for everyone.

5. Jim loves to play basketball.

6. Correction by others is hard to take.

7. Fearing their enemies, many small animals are nocturnal.

8. Law and Order is the program to watch tonight.

9. I don't know whether to go or to stay.

10. Our next job, to finish the painting, should be easy.

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Answers:

1. Are you too busy to help us?

- to help us (adverb infinitive phrase) modifying the predicate adjective busy

2. The crying child rushed to his mother.

- crying (participle) modifying the subject child

3. He jumped from the cliff without looking down.

- looking down (gerund phrase) used as the object of the preposition without

4. Walking is good for everyone.

- Walking (gerund) used as the subject

5. Jim loves to play basketball.

- to play basketball (noun infinitive phrase) used as the direct object

6. Correction by others is hard to take.

- to take (adverb infinitive) modifying the predicate adjective hard

7. Fearing their enemies, many small animals are nocturnal.

- Fearing their enemies (participial phrase) modifying the subject animals

8. Law and Order is the program to watch tonight.

- to watch tonight (adjective infinitive phrase) modifying the predicate nominative program

9. I don't know whether to go or to stay.

- to go/to stay (noun infinitives) used as direct objects

10. Our next job, to finish the painting, should be easy.

- to finish the painting (noun infinitive) used as an appositive

- painting (gerund) used as the direct object to the verbal to finish

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