Advanced Placement Literature/Composition



Directions: Below each sentence, classify the underlined words as a participial phrase, gerund phrase, or infinitive phrase.

1. The man holding the baby is my uncle.

participle

2. That job is hard to do without help.

infinitive

3. For a while he tried singing with a new band.

gerund

4. George listened to the girl reading poetry.

participle

Directions: Highlight the verbal phrase in each sentence. Then, below the sentence classify the type of verbal phrase (participial, gerund, or infinitive).

5. Finding the lost city of El Dorado has been the goal of many explorers.

gerund

6. Legends grew about streets and buildings made of gold.

participle

7. Listening to exciting stories about the place, Sir Walter Raleigh had an idea.

participle

8. He went to South America to search for the mysterious city in 1595.

infinitive

Directions: Highlight the verbal phrase in each sentence. Then, below the sentence classify the form of the verbal phrase (participial, gerund, or infinitive) and the function (noun, adjective, or adverb).

9. In 1986, a scuba diver looking for new dive sites discovered an underwater archway near Japan.

Participle / adjective

10. Swimming toward the archway, he found some large stone buildings.

Participle / adjective

11. Archaeologists began to study them.

Infinitive / noun

12. Working in the cold water was hard.

Gerund / noun

13. The innkeeper provided the divers with a place to spend the night.

Infinitive / adjective

Directions: Combine the pairs of sentences using a verbal phrase. Highlight the phrase you created and identify the type of verbal phrase you used.

14. Some people investigate the origins of everyday items. It can be an interesting and informative

pastime.

Combined: Investigating the origins of everyday items can be an interesting and informative

pastime.

Gerund

An interesting and informative pastime is investigating the origins of everyday items.

Gerund

15. We walked along the beach. We talked about how fun our trip had been.

Combined: Walking along the beach, we talked about how fun our trip had been.

Participle

We walked along the beach, talking about how fun our trip had been.

Participle

16. The campaign wanted to reach large numbers of people quickly. The campaign focused on mass immunization techniques.

Combined: To reach large numbers of people quickly, the campaign focused on mass immunization techniques.

Infinitive

Focusing on mass immunization techniques, the campaign wanted to reach a large number of people quickly.

Participle

The campaign wanted to reach large numbers of people quickly by focusing on mass

immunization techniques.

Gerund

3-Level Sentence Analysis. Below each sentence identify the following:

Level 1 – identify the part of speech of each word in the sentence (1 pt each).

Level 2 – identify each part of the sentence (2 pts each).

Level 3 – indicate with vertical lines and identify each phrase in the sentence (3 pts each).

16. I have a paper to write before class.

L 1 pro v adj n adj prep n

L 2 subj pred DO

[ - prepositional - -]

L 3 [ - - - - - infinitive- - - - - - - - - - -]

17. He won the game by scoring during the overtime period.

L 1 pro v adj n prep n prep adj adj n

L 2 subj pred DO

[ - - - - - - - - - prepositional - - - - - - - - ]

[ - - - - - - - - - - - - gerund - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]

L 3 [ - - - - - - - - prepositional - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]

18. Delores noticed her cousin walking along the shoreline.

L 1 n v adj n adj prep adj n

L 2 subj pred DO

[ - - - - - - prepositional - - -]

L 3 [ - - - - - - - - - participle - - - - - - - - - - - - -]

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Shepard Academy

Verbals and Verbal Phrases

Practice Test

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