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1. The children's singing and laughing woke me up.

2. Jenny likes to dance in the rain.


3. There are many ways of breaking a heart.
4. A broken heart will mend over time.
5. "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit
family in another city." (George Burns)
6. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.
7. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I
want to achieve it through not dying." (Woody Allen)
8. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I
want to achieve it through not dying." (Woody Allen)
9. "It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail." (Gore Vidal)
10. Succeeding is not enough. Others must fail.

1. Gerund: In this sentence, the


words singing and laughing function as nouns, making
them gerunds.
2. Infinitive: You can tell that to dance is an infinitive because
"to" precedes the word "dance." 
3. Gerund: The verbal breaking serves as a noun. It is also the
object of the preposition of.
4. (Past) participle: Implied in this sentence is the verbal
phrase, that has been preceding the verbal, broken, making
it a past participle, which indicates something that happened
and was completed in the past.
5. (Present) participles: Loving and caring are actions that are
occurring in the present, making these verbals present
participles.
6. Gerund: Laughing is a noun making it a gerund.
7. Infinitives: The verbal to achieve, in both cases, is an
infinitive because it's a verb preceded by to.
8. Gerund: Dying is used as a noun in the sentence.
9. Infinitive: To succeed is an infinitive—a verb preceded by to.
10. Gerund: Succeeding is a noun here; indeed, it is the
subject of the first sentence, making it a gerund.
Dancing
Gian Kate is dancing.
Dancing Hiphop is his favorite hobby.

I’ve been so sad for a while; now, I want


to smile.
I want to go to the moon.

The singing teacher is our adviser.


Arjay is playing in the rain.

Phrases:
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Prepositional Phrase (adj p/adv p)
Gerund phrase
Infinitive Phrase
Participial Phrase
The girl playing volleyball very well is
Joana, and she is a student of Pandaras
Integrated School.

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