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Question
Pick out the infinitives/ gerunds/ participles from the following sentence and state what one is.
We decided to settle in Pune
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Solution
to settle - infinitive.
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Write - e......., ......., ......., .........
Notice the highlighted words in the following sentences.
1. “When I leave,’ Sophie said, coming home from school, “I’m going to have a boutique.”
2. Jansie, linking arms with her along the street, looked doubtful.
3. “I’ll find it,” Sophie said, staring far down the street.
4. Jansie, knowing they were both earmarked for the biscuit factory, became melancholy.
5. 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.
I. Analyse the other examples in the same way.
II. Pick out five other sentences from the story in which present participles are used in this sense.
Pick out from the lesson the - Verb forms of -
resolution - ______________.
Find Verb form of:-
thought ____________
Fill in the blank by using the correct form of the word in the bracket, for the given portion of a letter:
Subject: Request for Approval
Dear Sir,
This is to respectfully submit that I ______ (seek) approval for organising a tree plantation drive to be undertaken by the club.
The teacher is hoping to ______ an art exhibition before the end of the year.
Complete the word-chain of ‘verbs’. Add four words, each beginning with the last letter of the previous word:
Grow → ______ → ______ → ______ → ______
