Verbals

Direction: Identify each underlined verbal phrase by writing gerund phrase or infinitive phrase.

1. Franklin’s surviving the process was a kind of scientific miracle.

• gerund phrase

• infinitive phrase

2. I remember how my father loved flying kites.

• infinitive phrase

• gerund phrase

3. He loved to get out in the city park on a windy autumn afternoon.

• infinitive phrase

• gerund phrase

4. But he always warned me never to fly a kite in a storm.

• gerund phrase

• infinitive phrase

5. I remember thinking it was not very handsome.

• infinitive phrase

• gerund phrase

6. I give anything to have that kite now.

• infinitive phrase

• gerund phrase

7. Remembering my first kite brings back a lot of other memories.

• gerund phrase

• infinitive phrase

8. Remebering my first kite, I’d like to make a kite for my son

• gerund phrase

• infinitive phrase

9. Running track is what Jackie lives for.

• gerund phrase

• infinitive phrase

10. Abner wanted to try out for the basketball team.

• infinitive phrase

• gerund phrase