The following collection of worksheets will teach your students how to identify and use verbals.

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Verbals are verbs that act as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs. There are three types of verbals: a gerund, a participle, and an infinitive. This set of activity sheets will review your students’ knowledge of various verbals. Activities include writing sentences using a given infinitive, identifying infinitives, participles and gerunds, and more. Answer sheets have been provided for worksheets for instructors, but please note that in some cases, your students' answers will vary.

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Verbals: Using Infinitives

For each infinitive and its function, write a sentence which uses the infinitive as indicated.

Infinitive, Participle, or Gerund?

Each sentence below contains either an infinitive, a participle, or a gerund. Write which it is on the line.

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Looks Like a Verb

Use each verbal in a sentence. On the line beside the verbal, indicate whether it is a gerund, a participle, or an infinitive in your sentence.

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Part 2 Looks Like A Verb

Use more in a sentence.

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Da Verbals

Underline the verbal phrases in each sentence. On the line, write whether it is a gerund (g), a participle (p), or an infinitive (I). This is a study sheet that is completed for you.

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Infinitives

An infinitive is the word "to" plus a verb. Infinitives can be used as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs.

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Writing with Infinitives

Use an infinitive phrase to combine each pair of sentences.

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Gerunds and Gerund Phrases

Write sentences that use the gerunds and gerund phrases as the part of speech indicated.

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Gerund or Infinitive?

Circle the correct verbal to complete each sentence.

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Infinitives Worksheet

Use an infinitive phrase to combine each pair of sentences.

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Writing with Gerunds

Write sentences that use each gerund as indicated.

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Participles

Underline the participle or participial phase in each sentence.

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Verbals: Quick Reference Guide

Is it used as a noun? Remove the infinitive or infinitive phrase from the sentence. Is the sentence missing a subject, direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, or object of a preposition?

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Identify the Verbal

Each sentence below contains either an infinitive, a participle, or a gerund. Write which it is on the line.

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Verbals: Participles

Choose the correct participle form of each word to complete the sentence.

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Writing with Participles

Use the bolded word to create a participial phrase to combine the two sentences. Be sure to use commas correctly.

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