Verbals & Verbal Phrases

Participial verbal phrases are verb forms that act like ______.

• nouns
• adjectives

Gerunds act as what part of speech?

• verbs

• adverbs

• nouns

• adjectives

1.Facing high school standards, students realized they hadn't worked hard enough in middle school.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

3.The college recommends sending applications early.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

8.The president wants to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

Classify the underlined phrase

Without chocolate, Mrs. Kirk becomes quite irritable.

• appositive phrase

• prepositional phrase

• infinitive phrase

• present participle phrase

Identify the word modified by the underlined prepositional phrase:

Chinese textile mills export silk decorated by hand.

• mills

• silk

• hand

• textile

The following sentence contains:

Surviving is a challenge for the Yanomamo, a people from the tropical forests of South America.

• a gerund only

• a participle only

• an appositive phrase only

• a gerund and an appositive phrase.

After abandoning her work as a teacher, she proceeded to become a union organizer.

• participial phrase

• gerund phrase

• prepositional phrase

• infinitive phrase