Gerunds and Participles (Grade 8)
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Gerunds and Participles (Grade 8)
Verbals for Grade 8: find the gerund, an -ing word doing a noun’s job, and the present and past participles that describe nouns, say what job painting and fishing do in a sentence, form a gerund from climb, then write a sentence with a gerund as its subject and one with a participle. With an answer key.
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Find gerunds, participles and infinitives, the verb forms that work as nouns, adjectives and adverbs, tell them from the main verb, and say what job each does in its sentence.
Reviewed by Mr. Michael Sullivan, Teacher. How we check worksheets
How to use this sheet
- Have the child say each sentence aloud with the verb. Most verb errors sound wrong when spoken.
- Put "yesterday", "today" and "tomorrow" in front of the sentence to check the tense.
- For irregular verbs, keep a list of the three forms, such as go, went and gone.
Common mistakes
- Adding -ed to irregular verbs, such as "goed" or "runned".
- Using the past participle without a helping verb, as in "I seen it". It needs a helper: I have seen it.
- Changing tense in the middle of a story without a reason.
