The Verbals

The participle combines the characteristics of these parts of speech:

• verb and noun

• verb and adverb

• verb and adjective or adverb

• verb and adjective

The verbals are non-finite forms of the verb

• True

• False

The gerund combines the characteristics of these parts of speech:

• noun and verb

• adjective and adverb

• noun or pronoun and verb

• adverb and noun

The form of a verbal refers the action to the present, past or future

• True

• False

All verbals can form predicative constructions

• True

• False

Predicative constructions are verbals with accompanying words

• True

• False

Sometimes a verbal can be used as the predicate of the sentence

• True

• False

A verbal may occur in the sentence...

• singly or in phrases

• in phrases or in predicative constructions

• singly, in phrases and in predicative constructions

• singly or in predicative constructions

The verbals cannot express person, number, mood, voice

• True

• False

The tense characteristics of verbals are not absolute

• True

• False