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VERBALS NOTES (DAY 1): PARTICIPLES. What is a verbal?  A verbal is a word that looks like a verb, but does not act like a verb.  A verbal is a part.

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1 VERBALS NOTES (DAY 1): PARTICIPLES

2 What is a verbal?  A verbal is a word that looks like a verb, but does not act like a verb.  A verbal is a part of speech other than a verb (noun, adjective, adverb)

3 Types of Verbals  Participles  Infinitives  Gerunds

4 Today’s Verbal: Participles  Look like verbs in the past or present tense, but are actually adjectives.  Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns, so participles modify nouns and pronouns.

5 Participle Examples: The hunted deerThe peeking kid

6 Types of Participles  Past participles end in –ed or –en.  Example: The forgotten boy cried until his parents came back.  Forgotten describes boy.  Present participles end in –ing.  The running jaguar captured its prey.  Running describes jaguar. PastPresent

7 Participial phrases  Participles may have multiple words attached to them to help modify a noun.  Strolling slowly, the couple enjoyed their walk in the park.  Hunted for its tusks, elephants are killed with most of their bodies left to rot by poachers.

8 Summary Questions  What is a verbal?  What part of speech is a participle?  What do participles modify?  What do participial endings look like?


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