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Primary Verbals

This document provides instructions for identifying and classifying different types of verbals (infinitives, gerunds, and participles) in sentences. It asks to underline examples of each verbal and determine their grammatical function. It also includes exercises to complete sentences with participles and classify infinitives, gerunds, and participles found in sentences.

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Primary Verbals

This document provides instructions for identifying and classifying different types of verbals (infinitives, gerunds, and participles) in sentences. It asks to underline examples of each verbal and determine their grammatical function. It also includes exercises to complete sentences with participles and classify infinitives, gerunds, and participles found in sentences.

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5th GRADE May 9

THE VERBOIDS
1. Recognize and underline the verbals in the following sentences:
a) Smoking is harmful to health.
Inf.
The injured cat was looking at the dog.

c) We were trying to arrive on time.

She wouldn't stop crying.

e) He/She entered the room crying.

f) The unsuspecting bullfighter had left the cape exposed.

He was surprised.

The techno cumbia drives young people crazy.

i) I was walking, whistling and looking at the sky.

j) I want to learn several languages.

2. Underline the infinitive:


"To be born is to begin to die,"
I used to hear him say all the time,

to fear death is in vain.

3. Underline the participles:


It was a letter written with a lot of emotion. Stunned, he finished reading it and fell asleep.

4. Underline the gerund:


Walking and looking at the streets, he arrived home, on the way he was checking what he had to do.
to do.
5. Complete the following sentences with the past participle of the verb indicated:
a) We have _____________ a postcard to my aunt.
to write
b) We have _____________ the dues for the gift.
to collect
c) Elena and Sofía are ______________.
to scare

d) The fourth _____________ was left as good as new.


to paint

e) The trees _____________ years ago provide us shade.


to sow

f) He _____________ what he knew.


to say
6. Underline the infinitives and write their function (verb or noun):
It was a bitter awakening.
You can win the race.
c) It's better for us to go back.

Everyone came to listen to MDO. __________________________________

e) Dreaming costs nothing.

f) Thinking makes us human.

7. Underline the gerunds and write their function (verb or adverb):

He spends the day sleeping.

The tiger continued stalking its prey.

The children are screaming. _____________________________________

He/She ran from his/her house.

e) Having finished the work, he/she left. _____________________________

f) He ended up crying over his defeat.

8. Underline the participles and indicate their function (verb or adjective):

The accounts were reviewed again. _________________________

Flies don't enter a closed mouth. translatedText

c) I don't like those scared faces. _________________________

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