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Verbals

Print out a clean copy of your ten sentences. If you haven't yet cleaned up typos in your sentences or abnormalities in your Works Cited entry, do so.

Identify all of the verbal phrases in your passage. Remember that many verbals are transitive (have an object).
1. Indicate type (gerund, infinitive, present participle, past participle, or absolute phrase)
2. Indicate part of speech (N, adj, adv)
3. Indicate sentence function (S, DO, OP, etc.)

You may want to use some code system (colored highlighters, degrees of underlining, or so forth) to distinguish one verbal from another.

Some Tips

• If you're having trouble identifying verbal objects, form the question "verbal what?" The answer should be the object.
• Don't include participials that are part of a main verb phrase (recall our discussion of verb aspect). Your focus in this activity is on verbs acting as other parts of speech.
• Also, be sure to distinguish between "to" in an infinitive and as a preposition.

As always, if you have any questions about these exercises, please schedule an appointment during my numerous office hours.