Verbals: Participles

Identify the type of verbal underlined in the sentence:

Applauding, the audience gave the singers a standing ovation.

• Gerund

• Infinitive

• Participle

Identify the type of verbal underlined in the sentence:

The smell of burned toast filled the kitchen.

• Gerund

• Infinitive

• Participle

Identify the type of verbal underlined in the sentence:

• Gerund

• Infinitive

• Participle

Identify the type of verbal underlined in the sentence:

• Gerund

• Infinitive

• Participle

What type of verbal phrase is this?

• Participial phrase

• Infinitive phrase

• Gerund phrase

While eating dinner, our running toilet decided to overflow, causing a great mess in the hall.

The underlined word is what type of verbal?

• Participle

• Infinitive

• Gerund

Blanketed in snow, the mountains looked spectacular after the second round of winter snow fell.

What type of verbal phrase is underlined above?

• Participial phrase

• Infinitive phrase

• Gerund phrase

Participles can end in -ing, -ed, or ....

• -es

• -en

• -eg

What 2 verbals are used in the above sentence?

• to sleep = gerund; clutching = participle

• to sleep = infinitive; clutching = gerund

• to sleep = infinitive; clutching = participle

The swimming fish raced upstream.

• Gerund

• Participle

• Infinitive