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Errors With Verbals: Michelle Cervantes, Diego Nolasco and Daniela Martinez

Verbals are verb forms that function as nouns or adjectives in sentences. There are three types of verbals in English: participles, gerunds, and infinitives. Participles end in "-ed" or "-ing" and can be present or past tense. Gerunds end in "-ing" and function as nouns, though they can still take direct objects. Infinitives consist of "to" followed by the base verb form and can function as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs in sentences.

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Errors With Verbals: Michelle Cervantes, Diego Nolasco and Daniela Martinez

Verbals are verb forms that function as nouns or adjectives in sentences. There are three types of verbals in English: participles, gerunds, and infinitives. Participles end in "-ed" or "-ing" and can be present or past tense. Gerunds end in "-ing" and function as nouns, though they can still take direct objects. Infinitives consist of "to" followed by the base verb form and can function as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs in sentences.

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ERRORS

WITH
VERBALS
MICHELLE CERVANTES, DIEGO
NOLASCO AND DANIELA MARTINEZ
What are verbals?

A verbal is a verb form which functions as a noun or an adjective. In English,


there are three types of verbals:

● Participles (past participles and present participles).


● Gerunds
● Infinitives
Participles

A participle is a word formed from a verb, usually by adding -d, -ed, or -ing.

There are two kinds of participle in English, as follows:

The present participle : It ends with -ing, e.g.:

We are going to Italy.

The past participle: It ends with -d or -ed for regular verbs, e.g.:

She had decided to go to Italy.


Gerunds
A gerund is a noun formed from a verb.

All gerunds end -ing. For example:

● swimming
● running
● drinking

Even though a gerund is a noun, a gerund can still take a direct object (like a verb).
This is known as a gerund complement. For example:

● swimming the lake


● running a mile
● drinking a beer
Infinitives
Consist of the word “To” and the simple use

form of the verb.

Infinitive as noun: Consider “Jen loves to sing in the rain.” To sing is the object of the verb loves. What does Jen
love? She loves to sing.
Infinitive as adjective: In “Lucy always takes a book to read on the subway,” to read modifies the noun book.
What kind of book does Lucy take? One to read.
Infinitive as adverb: In “The school requires perfect attendance to graduate,” to graduate is an adverb modifying
the verb requires.
Don’t confuse an infinitive with a prepositional phrase. Infinitives are always the word “to” plus a verb, as in to
love, to sing, to shout, to wear, and so on. On the other hand, prepositional phrases are the word “to” plus a noun
or pronoun and any modifiers, as in to him, to our house, to the beach, and to my office.

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