Description
This grammar resource teaches students how verbals function in sentences by showing how words derived from verbs can act as different parts of speech. Designed for middle school and high school ELA classrooms, this lesson strengthens grammar understanding, sentence analysis, and writing accuracy.
Students receive targeted practice with the three types of verbals—participles, gerunds, and infinitives—and learn how each one functions within a sentence. The activities guide students to identify verbals, recognize verbal phrases, and determine how each verbal contributes to meaning and structure.
Throughout this three-page grammar review, students practice identifying gerunds and gerund phrases, participles and participial phrases, and infinitives and infinitive phrases. Students also analyze whether a participle is past or present, determine whether an infinitive functions as a noun, adjective, or adverb, and identify the grammatical role of gerunds within a sentence. Additional practice helps students distinguish between gerunds and present tense participles, a common area of confusion.
This verbals grammar practice reinforces students’ ability to recognize and analyze sentence structure, making it ideal for grammar units, writing instruction, syntax review, or test preparation. The structured format allows for independent practice, small-group work, or whole-class review.