The Pretenders: Verbals
About the The Pretenders: Verbals Lesson
Summary
This is a review lesson about verbals: infinitives, gerunds and participles.
Objectives
• to review the concept of verbals;
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to provide brief definitions and examples of infinitives, gerunds and participles;
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to review the concept of verb tense;
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to explain and discuss how verbals are use in phrases.
Suggested Grades
5th Grade
6th Grade
7th Grade
Excerpt
Verbs are the action words in a sentence. When a verb behaves like a verb, it is easy to spot. Look for the word in the sentence that answers the question: What happens? But, how do you find a verb when it pretends to be another part of speech? Can that happen? Yes it can!
Sometimes verbs act like other parts of speech like nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. When a verb does not behave like a verb, we give it another name. There are three verb pretenders, also known as verbals:
1. infinitives
2. gerunds
3. participles
INFINITIVES are verbs that combine a verb and the word to. They can act like nouns, adjectives, and adverbs.
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