Participle and Gerund – Flashcards
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Participle
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Used as adjectives(describes something) in following sentences. Give the noun or pronoun each particple to modify
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Gerund
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Used as the noun of the sentence.
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Participles ending
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Present end in -ing. Past usually end in -d or -ed. Or sometimes are irregular.
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Gerunds ending
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Always end in -ing
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What can an Gerund be?
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Subject, direct object, an object of an preposition. Or a predicate nominative
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What can a Participle be?
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None just an adjective
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Thinking about school, Bob sat in bed
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Participle Phrase
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Bob is waiting for Linda
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Gerund
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Jumping inside the pool
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Verb
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Planing ahead, David carried an umbrella to school.
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Particple Phrase
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The zoning committee would not allow a strip mall to be built next to the park.
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Participle Phrase
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The tireless beavers were building a dam across the stream.
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Verb
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Brian likes racing remote-controlled cars.
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Gerund
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The restless boy was fidgeting throughout the entire movie.
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Verb
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Ben enjoys writing to his pen pal in Italy
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Gerund
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She's jumping in the pool
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verb
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Infinitive Phrase
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To + verb/ nouns, adjective, and adverb
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Prep Phrase
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Prep+object(noun or pronoun, adj. and adv)
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I want to read the break
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Infinitive
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I can't wait to tell Paul
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Infinitive
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Planning ahead, David carried an umbrella to school.
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Participle Phrase
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True
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The infinitive or infinitives can serve as subject and direct object of the sentence. True or False?
