Gerunds and Participles

Coming home, he found several valuable things missing.

• Gerund

• Participle

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

A participle is a form of a verb that acts as a(n) ---

• adjective

• adverb

• noun

• verb

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the highlighted word/phrase as a Gerund or Participle.
In the kitchen, the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of back, two coffees and two cool glasses of milk.

• Participle

• Gerund

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the highlighted word/phrase as a Gerund or Participle.
The wind blew.  A falling tree bough crashed through the kitchen window.

• Participle

• Gerund

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the highlighted word/phrase as a Gerund or Participle.
He ruined his sight by watching TV all day.

• Participle

• Gerund

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the highlighted word/phrase as a Gerund or Participle.
Asking questions is a whole lot easier than answering them.

• Participle

• Gerund

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the gerund in the sentence.
Cru enjoys sketching people.

• Cru

• enjoys

• sketching

• people

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

We discussed moving to Florida.

• We

• Florida

• discussed

• moving

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Of all my interests, I care most about swimming.

• swimming

• interests

• care

• about

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.K.1E

My favorite sport, running, takes a great deal of effort.

• takes

• running

• favorite

• effort

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A