Lesson 12.3 | Parts of Sentences | Verbal and Verbal Phr

1.Facing high school standards, students realized they hadn't worked hard enough in middle school.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

2.Swimming in your pool is always fun.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

3.The college recommends sending applications early.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

4.To be truly successful is to be true to yourself and to the highest principles of honor

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

9.Getting up at five, we got an early start.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

10.Gathering my courage, I asked the teacher for help with my schoolwork.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

11.Collecting baseball cards used to be a popular hobby.

• Infinitive Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

• Participial Phrase

Identify the type of the bolded phrase or word in the sentence.

Looking around, we saw many friends.

• Participles and Participial Phrase

• Gerund and Gerund Phrase

• Infinitives and Infinitive Phrase

• None

Identify the bolded red phrase.

Flying in a plane is my favorite way to travel.

• participle

• gerund

• infintive

• prepositional phrase

Jogging is her favorite activity.

• Gerund
• Participle
• Infinitive