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Tiffany wanted a pet for her birthday instead of usual presents. She had long dreamed of walking her own dog. A puppy in a pet store caught her eye. Hoping to get this puppy, Tiffany visited the store daily until her birthday when she and her mom bought the poodle, named Inglebert. Tiffany now spends much of her time playing with and training Inglebert.

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Verbals Activity

Tiffany wanted a pet for her birthday instead of usual presents. She had long dreamed of walking her own dog. A puppy in a pet store caught her eye. Hoping to get this puppy, Tiffany visited the store daily until her birthday when she and her mom bought the poodle, named Inglebert. Tiffany now spends much of her time playing with and training Inglebert.

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Name: ____________________________________Period: __________Date: _____________________

Identifying Verbals
Directions: In the following paragraph, verbals are underlined. Above each of these words, identify what kind of
verbal it is—gerund, participle, or infinitive.

Tiffany, bored with the usual presents, asked for a pet for her birthday. Walking a dog of her own had been her
dream for a long time. A poodle puppy wagging its tail in a pet store caught her eye. Hoping for this pet, Tiffany
went to the store every day to look at the beloved pup. On her birthday, Tiffany and her mom hurried to the store
to buy the poodle. Tiffany named the excited puppy Inglebert, which means “unusually intelligent.” Playing fetch
and teaching Inglebert new tricks now take up much of Tiffany’s time.

II. For each of the following sentences, Encircle the verbals and decide whether it is a participle, gerund, or
infinitive. Write a “P” over the word or phrase if it is a participle, a “G” if the word or phrase is a gerund an “I” if the
word or phrase is an infinitive.

1. The children’s singing and laughing woke me up.

2. Mallory likes to dance in the rain.

3. There are many ways of breaking a heart.

4. A broken heart will mend over time.

5. George Burns once said, “Happiness is shaving a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

6. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.

7. Woody Allen once said, “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not
dying.”

8. Woody Allen once said, “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not
dying.”

9. Gore Vidal once said, “It is not enough to succeed. Other must fail.”

10. Succeeding is not enough. Others must fail.

III. Write 3 examples for each type of verbals.

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