To Infinitive and Beyond - Identifying Infinitives and Gerunds - PDF
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This document provides instructions and examples for identifying infinitive and gerund phrases in English grammar. It outlines a step-by-step approach to finding these phrases. This document is applicable for secondary school grammar learning.
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To infinitive and beyond! 1. Find the word “to.” 2. Look beyond the word “to.” If it’s a verb, you have an infinitive. If it isn’t, you have a prepositional phrase. 3. Look beyond the infinitive. Include any modifiers of the infinitive as par...
To infinitive and beyond! 1. Find the word “to.” 2. Look beyond the word “to.” If it’s a verb, you have an infinitive. If it isn’t, you have a prepositional phrase. 3. Look beyond the infinitive. Include any modifiers of the infinitive as part of the infinitive phrase. Buy a ring at Gerund. (because a ring is a thing that ends in –ing). 1. Find the word that ends in –ing. 2. Is it normally a noun, but is doing the job of a noun? In other words, is it the subject, predicate nominative, or direct object of the sentence? 3. If yes, you have found a gerund.
