This document provides examples and explanations of gerunds, participles, and participial phrases. It discusses how these verb forms can function as subjects, direct objects, predicate nominatives, objects of prepositions, and adjectives/adjectival phrases. Multiple choice questions are included to test understanding of identifying these forms and their functions in sentences.

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Gotta’ Get
a Gerund
Pa Pa Pa
Participle
Give me a
DO or
PN
Subject or
participle
Which
is it?

2. These are ING
words that can
function as Nouns:
Subject/Direct
Object/Predicate
Nominative/Object
of Preposition

3. What is a gerund?

4. How does the
gerund function in
the sentence below?
Going to the beach is
the plan.

5. What is a Subject?

6. How does the
gerund function?
She hates doing the
dishes.

7. What is
direct object?

8. Which sentence contains a
gerund predicate nominative?
A. Swimming is so much fun.
B. She chose watching a movie
instead of playing a game.
C. A difficult sport is swimming.
D. I will call you after arriving at
the party.

9. What is C?
A difficult sport is
swimming.

10. Which sentence does NOT
function as a gerund object of
the preposition?
A. She hates doing the worst..
B. Please have a talk before
leaving.
C. I will call you after arriving at
the party.

11. What is A?
A. She hates doing the
worst.

12. This is what
participles and
participial phrases
do.

13. What is describe nouns?
OR What is act as
adjectives?

14. In the following
sentence:
The broken arrow
fell to the floor.
What is the participle?

15. What is broken?

16. In the following
sentence:
Sitting like a duck,
the boy quacked
around.
What does the
participial phrase
modify?

17. What is boy?

18. In the following sentence:
The baking bread smelled
delicious.
What is the participle?
What does it modify?

19. What is baking?
What is bread?

20. Which of the following contains
a participle OR participial
phrase?
A. Sharon wanted to dance.
B. Writing is not my favorite
thing.
C. I love sleeping late.
D. Frozen blueberries are his
favorite desert.

21. What is (D)
Frozen

22. Which describes a
noun—a gerund or a
participle?

23. What is a participle?

24. How do the underlined
words function?
Standing in the rain, the
couple kissed.

25. What is a participial
phrase modifying
couple?

26. In the following sentence:
She never was good at
managing money.
How does the underlined
portion function?

27. What is gerund
object of preposition
AT?

28. Which of the following contains
a participle?
A. Do you like sailing on the
lake?
B. Driving a car takes
concentration.
C. Devoted soccer fans look
forward to the season.
D. She began her career by
dancing with amateur groups.

29. What is C?
Devoted soccer fans look
forward to the season.

30. Which of the following is a gerund
direct object?
A. She shouted loudly to the man.
B. She could not stop humming
that tune.
C. Listening is important.
D. Driving in a crowded city is
crazy.

31. What is B?
B. She could not stop
humming that tune.

32. What does a direct
object follow?

33. What is an action
verb?

34. What does a predicate
nominative follow?

35. What is a linking verb?

36. In the following sentence, how
does the gerund function?
The grandest movement of ballet
is leaping.
A. Subject
B. Direct Object
C. Predicate Nominative

37. What is C. Predicate
Nominative??

38. In the following sentence, how
does the gerund function?
One of his skills was leaping.
A. Predicate Nominative
B. Subject
C. Direct Object

39. What is (A)?
Predicate Nominative

40. Which of the following functions
as a gerund Direct Object?
A. Rising with the sun does not
appeal to me.
B. In the 1920s, modern dancers
started moving in a new way.
C. Preparation for dancing begins
early in life.
D. Dancing takes many forms.

41. What is (B)
B. In the 1920s,
modern dancers
started moving in a
new way.

42. What comes at the
beginning of the sentence
and tells what the
sentence is about?

43. What is a subject?

44. Which describes a noun?
Gerund subject OR
participle?

45. What is a participle?

46. Which of the following
contains a gerund subject?
A. Her weakness is managing
money.
B. Don’t try managing money.
C. Managing money is never
easy.

47. What is C. ?
Managing money is
never easy.

48. How does the underlined
part of the sentence
function?
Going the extra mile, the
teacher pressed on.

49. What is a participial
phrase modifying
teacher?

50. Daily Double—Make a
bet!

51. Give me 2 sentences, and
you must get both right.
One functioning as a
gerund predicate
nominative
….One with a
participle/participial
phrase