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Question
Pick out an infinitive from the given sentence:
The sun began to sink.
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Solution
Infinitive - to sink
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Find the sentence in the lesson that have the phrasal verbs given below. Match them with their meaning.
kept back - stay indoors
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get along with - give an assignment (home work) to a person authority (the teacher)
Notice the highlighted words in the following sentences.
- “When I leave,’ Sophie said, coming home from school, “I’m going to have a boutique.”
- Jansie, linking arms with her along the street, looked doubtful.
- “I’ll find it,” Sophie said, staring far down the street.
- Jansie, knowing they were both earmarked for the biscuit factory, became melancholy.
- And she turned in through the open street door, leaving Jansie standing in the rain.
- When we add “ing” to a verb, we get the present participle form. The present participle form is generally used along with forms of “be’, (is, was, are, were, am) to indicate the continuous tense as in “Sophie was coming home from school.”
- We can use the present participle by itself without the helping verb when we wish to indicate that an action is happening at the same time as another.
- In example 1, Sophie “said” something. “Said”, here, is the main action.
- What Sophie was doing while she was “saying” is indicated by “coming home from school”. So we get the information of two actions happening at the same time. We convey the information in one sentence instead of two.
- Analyse the other examples in the same way.
- Pick out five other sentences from the story in which present participles are used in this sense.
Choose the appropriate alternative:
Neeta spoke in an _______ tone.
Say whether the Verbs underlined in the sentence are finite (limited by the number or person of the subject) or non-finite (not governed by the subject, number or person).
He decides to go to a hermit.
Pick out from the lesson the Verb form of:
democracy
Say whether the words underlined are infinitives/participles or gerunds.
The athletes wanted to take part in the running race.
Pick out the infinitives/gerunds/participles from the following sentence and state what one is.
I want to see how it looks.
Read the following examples of gerunds:
- Gardening is an art.
- Cooking is a science.
- I enjoy reading poems.
- I like reading more than writing.
Rewrite the above sentences using other appropriate gerunds in place of the given here.
Stephen Hawking _____ continued to write at a prolific rate.
