Identifying Verbal Phrases

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

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

2.Swimming in your pool is always fun.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

3.The college recommends sending applications early.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

4.To be truly successful is to be true to yourself and to the highest principles of honor

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

5.I am expected to do the dishes at his house every night.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

6.Her most important achievement was winning the national championship.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

7.The student left in charge of the class couldn’t control his classmates.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

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

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

9.Getting up at five, we got an early start.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

10.Gathering my courage, I asked the teacher for help with my schoolwork.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase