Verbals Exercises to help you ACTIVELY Study

Here is the sheet I handed out at the after school review. Click here (file name: verbals after school review)
Also, be sure to check out the answers. (File name: ANSWERS to verbal review)

Be sure to identify why you get certain questions wrong. What is tripping you up? Use the sheet I handed out in class today to help address some of your confusion.

Continue to ACTIVELY study. You are not actively studying unless you are completing these exercises and trying to create strategies that will allow you to avoid the confusion you would otherwise experience tomorrow. Time is on your side right now. You have time and resources to figure out the issues, if any. You CAN do this. Tomorrow, during the test, you will not have the time and resources available to deal with confusion. Speaking of resources, here are the exercises from today's review game--answers to each section can be found by scrolling to the bottom.


A.Participles: Your task is to identify the participle in each sentence and tell us the noun it modifies. Also, please indicate whether the participle is present or past.

         1.  Two men loaded supplies into the truck parked at the service entrance.

2. Troubled by constant complaints, the community association called a meeting.

3. Nobody knew the man sitting next to the governor.

4. Rebuffing our efforts at explanation, the company dismissed us.

B: Gerunds:  Please identify the gerund phrase in each sentence. Please decide whether it is being used as a subject, subject complement, direct object, or an appositive.

1.  The decorator suggested papering the wall with a floral design.

2. Planning can make the difference between a good and a bad trip.

3. One attraction of this lake is fishing for large trout.

4.  Martha’s problem, falling down stairs, has recently gotten worse.

5. Keeping the crowds orderly during the celebration will be a difficult task.

C. For each of the following sentences, identify the infinitive phrase.  Indicate whether the phrase is functioning as a noun, adverb, or, adjective. If functioning as a noun, please indicate if it is a subject, subject complement, or direct object.

1.  World War I was a war to end all wars.

2. Hal firmly intends to buy a hybrid car.

3. To be alone can be frightening.

4.  Bill opened the door to let me into the room.

ANSWERS:

Part A

1.  Participle: parked-past

Noun it modifies: truck

2.  Participle- troubled-past

Noun- association

3.  Participle- sitting- present

Noun- man

4.

Participle: rebuffing-present

Noun- company

Part B:

1. papering the wall with a floral design.

Direct Object

2.  Planning

Subject

3.  fishing for large trout.

Subject complement

4.  falling down stairs

Appositive

5.  Keeping the crowds orderly during the celebration

Subject

Part C ANSWERS (sorry about the strange formatting)

1. 

to end all wars

Adjective (describes what kind of war)

2. 

to buy a hybrid car.

Noun-direct object (intends what?)

3. 

To be alone

Noun-Subject (It can be frightening)

4. 

to let me into the room.

Adverb