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Question
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).
The sun began to sink.
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Solution
began: finite
to sink: non‑finite
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- “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.
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- 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.
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I like to eat fruits rather than eating sweets.
Pick out the infinitives/gerunds/participles from the following sentence and state what one is.
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| universal | .............. |
| global | .............. |
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As I was standing on the dock, looking out at the lake for the last time, a feeling of emptiness ______ over me like darkness.
