Grammar Unit 8: Verbals

Choose the answer that correctly identifies the underlined verb phrase.

Brushing teeth is key to oral hygiene.

• participial

• gerund

• infinitive

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Choose the answer that correctly identifies the underlined verb phrase.

I dance to relax.

• participial

• gerund

• infinitive

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Choose the answer that correctly identifies the underlined verb phrase.

Wearing boots is Lincoln's favorite.

• participial

• gerund

• infinitive

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Choose the answer that correctly identifies the underlined verb phrase.

The chicken likes to dance in the rain.

• participial

• gerund

• infinitive

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Choose the answer that correctly identifies the underlined verb phrase.

The chicken, walking on the pier, fell into the ocean.

• participial

• gerund

• infinitive

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Choose the answer that correctly identifies the underlined verb phrase.

To raise money for the children's hospital is the charity's new goal.

• participial

• gerund

• infinitive

Choose the answer that correctly identifies the underlined verb phrase.

Tired from the journey, the she-wolf and One Eye found a lair.

• participial

• gerund

• infinitive

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Choose the answer that correctly identifies the underlined verb phrase.

Baffled by the mystery, the police scratched their heads.

• participial

• gerund

• infinitive

Select all that are true depending about participles and participial phrases.

• Present participles end in -ing and past participles end in -ed.

• Participles function as verbs with helping verbs placed in front of them; use the "to be" verb with the present participle and "to have" with the past participle.

• Participles can be used as adjectives to describe a noun; sometimes a participial phrase (the participle and other words to complete the meaning) describes the noun.

• Avoid confusing the past participle with the past tense form of a verb.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Select all that are true depending about gerunds and gerund phrases.

• A gerund is a verb form that ends in -ing and is used as a noun.

• A gerund phrase is a group of words that includes a gerund and other words that

  complete its meaning.

• Gerunds and present participles are the same thing because they both function as verbs.

• Avoid confusing gerunds with the present participle.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A