Identifying Gerunds, Participles and Infinitives
Directions: Read each of the following sentences to determine whether the sentence contains a gerund,
participle, or infinitive. At the left of the number, write G, P, or I.
1) Facing college standards, the students realized that they hadn't worked hard enough in
high school.
2) Swimming in your pool is always fun.
3) The college recommends sending applications early.
4) Mrs. Sears showing more bravery than wisdom invited thirty boys and girls to a party.
5) To be great is to be true to yourself and to the highest principles of honor.
6) He won the game by scoring during the overtime period.
7) Jim is expected to program computers at his new job.
8) Her most important achievement was winning the national championship.
9) Going to work today took all my energy.
10) The student left in charge of the class was unable to keep order.
11) The president wants to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
12) Fighting for a losing cause made them depressed.
13) Getting up at five, we got an early start.
14) Telling your father was a mistake.
15) The crying boy angered by the bully began to fight.
16) Applicants must investigate various colleges learning as much as possible about them before applying for admission.
17) Statistics reported by the National Education Association revealed that seventy percent of American colleges offer remedial English classes emphasizing composition.

Answer:

1. G

2. G

3. G

4. P

5. I

6. G

7. I

8. P

9. G

10. P

11. P

12. G

13. P

14. G

15. I

16. G

17. P

Explanation:

True or False : Writers use word order for expressive purposes

Which type of context clue can be used to determine the meaning of "gregarious" in this sentence? "The husband and wife were very different. Al was reserved and shy but Sophie was quite gregarious."

Read the following excerpt and answer the question.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former
slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice,
sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the
color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
Which statement best explains how the use of repetition in this excerpt makes it more effective?
A) It shows that King is from the South
B) It shows that African Americans and white Americans share the same aspirations,
C) It shows that King condemns
South and not the North
D) It shows that King is optimistic in the face of a very large task

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Excerpt from Marco Polo Part 3
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Look at blank number 22. Which choice accurately completes the sentence with the content england
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us because it maintains objective case
us because it maintains the first person point of vier
themselves because the plural reflexive pronoun is needed
themselves because the plural indefinite pronoun is needed
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Rany is conducting research to support his claim that happy people are more productive in their jobs than unhappy people, and he finds this text in a reliable source.

(1) There are many different factors that affect workplace productivity. (2) Research tells us that an employee’s level of happiness can impact how he or she performs. (3) In fact, one study showed that people who identified as being happy are twelve percent more productive than their colleagues. (4) An employee’s interest level in a given subject or task and ability level are other factors that play a role in how that person does his or her job.

Which sentence contains a detail that best supports Rany’s claim?

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Which of the following is most closely linked to the author's characterization of Mama as it relates to Japanese culture?

A. Despite the absence of several of her children Mama's first concern is to keep the rest of her family together.

B. Although she works in a cannery she irons a fresh handkerchief every night to wear to work every morning.

C. When Papa refuses to get a job because of his pride, Mama takes up the slack to spare him the shame of "hitting rock bottom".

D. She does not seem upset when she finds out the furniture she'd stored before the war has been stolen.

If there were a collaborative discussion based on Fast Food Nation, participants would discuss ideas from the book. Consider these statements from a discussion of ideas from Fast Food Nation. Then, determine whether each is a fact or an opinion.

Which sentence is punctuated correctly? Wordsworth is lonely at the start of his poem; however; his mood changes when he sees the daffodils. Wordsworth is lonely at the start of his poem, however, his mood changes when he sees the daffodils. Wordsworth is lonely at the start of his poem; however, his mood changes when he sees the daffodils. Wordsworth is lonely at the start of his poem however his mood changes when he sees the daffodils.

Which word is a noun in the following sentence? The meeting was attended by everyone. meeting attended by the

Which detail best supports the idea that oppressive leaders use propaganda to achieve their goals?


"The milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone."

"Snowball and Napoleon sent out flights of pigeons . . . to mingle with the animals on neighbouring farms . . . and teach them the tune of ‘Beasts of England.’"

"Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back."

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Diary Entry
Q) Taking help from the information given below, make a diary entry describing how you caught a thief red-handed one night, Hints: • A beautiful evening • the family had a nice dinner • watched TV • went to sleep • sleep was disturbed • heard some commotion • got suspicious • switched on the light • parents also got up • found things in a mess • someone had come there • the search began • no one was found at last • my eyes fell on the shoes behind a curtain • he was the thief • all pounced on him caught • handed over to the police.

from On the Northland Trail in White Fang by Jack London

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. But there was life, abroad in the land and defiant. Down the frozen waterway toiled a string of wolfish dogs. Their bristly fur was rimed with frost. Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapor that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost. Leather harness was on the dogs, and leather traces attached them to a sled which dragged along behind. The sled was without runners. It was made of stout birch-bark, and its full surface rested on the snow. The front end of the sled was turned up, like a scroll, in order to force down and under the bore of soft snow that surged like a wave before it. On the sled, securely lashed, was a long and narrow oblong box. There were other things on the sled—blankets, an axe, and a coffee-pot and frying pan; but prominent, occupying most of the space, was the long and narrow oblong box. In advance of the dogs, on wide snowshoes, toiled a man. At the rear of the sled toiled a second man. On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over,—a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again. It is not the way of the wild to like movement. Life is an offence to it, for life is movement; and the Wild aims always to destroy movement. It freezes the water to prevent it running to the sea; it drives the sap out of the trees till they are frozen to their mighty hearts; and most ferociously and terribly of all does the Wild harry and crush into submission man—man who is the most restless of life, ever in revolt against the dictum that all movement must in the end come to the cessation of movement. But at the front and rear unawed and indomitable, toiled the two men who were not yet dead. Their bodies were covered with fur and soft-tanned leather. Eyelashes and cheeks and lips were so coated with the crystals from their frozen breath that their faces were not discernible. The gave them the seeming of ghostly masques, undertakers in a spectral world at the funeral of some ghost. But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space. They traveled on without speech, saving their breath for the work of their bodies. On every side was the silence, pressing upon them with a tangible presence. It affected their minds as the many atmospheres of deep water affect the body of the diver. It crushed them with the weight of unending vastness and unalterable decree. It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardors and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.

Match the label to the correct option

Which label provides evidence for each of the statements about the passage?
1.Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.
2.side the frozen waterway. But there was life, abroad in the land and defiant.
3.A vast silence reigned over the land.
4.It was made of stout birch-bark, and its full surface rested on the snow.

A.The winter setting creates a vivid scene
B.The tundra is isolated and still
C.Even in the midst of winter, there is action on the tundra
D.The environment requires special equipment

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(In Go Set a Watchman)


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pick out participles ,infinitive, gerunds and main verb in the following

1.manu spand his time collecting stamps
2.nina bought a packet of forzen peas
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5.Their hummiliating behaviour upset the artist
6.He was very upset with his disappointing performance
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