Verbal Types

To + a verb that usually acts as a noun but can also act as an adjective or adverb is which type of verbal?

• participle

• gerund

• infinitive

What do you call a word formed from a verb that acts as a noun and always ends in -ing?

• gerund

• participle

• infinitive

What do you call a word formed from a verb hat acts as an adjective and can be past (-ed,-t, -en, etc.) or present (-ing)?

• infinitive

• participle

• gerund

What is the participle in the following sentence?

The truck, burdened with its load, traveled slowly over the rough road.

• burdened

• rough

• traveled

• slowly

Identify the gerund in the following sentence.

His favorite way to spend his evening is relaxing in the hot tub.

• to spend

• evening

• favorite

• relaxing

Identify the infinitive in the following sentence.

I will go to the market to buy flowers for my mother.

• to the

• to the market

• to buy

• to buy flowers

What type of verbal is in the following sentence?

Planting season begins in April.

• Infinitive

• Participle

• Gerund

What type of verbal is in the following sentence?

My mother needs to plant her rosebush.

• Infinitive

• Participle

• Gerund

• No verbal

What type of verbal is used in the following sentence?

I dislike the work associated with planting.

• infinitive

• participle

• gerund

• No verbal

What type of verbal is used in the following sentence?

Some people consider my interest in gardening an obsession.

• Infinitive

• Gerund

• Participle

• No verbal