4th Monthly Test Flashcards
Grade 9 (36 cards)
Verb in form but doesn’t function or act as a verb.
Verbals
Verbals typically function as
Nouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs.
Types of Verbals
Participles
Gerund
Infinitive
the name of a person, animal, place, or thing.
Noun
words used to describe a noun or pronoun.
Adjectives
Answers the question How, where, when, how much, how often, etc.
Adverbs
Verb in form but functions as an adjective. (mostly ends with -ing if present) (ends with -ex, -d, -nt, -t if past)
Participle
Functions as a noun (ends in -ing)
Gerund
- Functions as an adjective, noun, or adverbs. (to + present simple)
Infinitive
a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
verb
examples of linking verb
is, be, am, was, were, been, are
It can be a subject, object, or complement.
Infinitive as nouns
describes and gives out more information about a noun.
Infinitives as adjectives:
Can modify a verb. Adjective, or another adverb. We can ask the questions “How, Why, To what extent?”
Infinitives as adverbs:
who created Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe
Father of Short stories
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe bday
January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts
Characters
Montresor, Fortunato, luchesi
Narrator and Protagonist
Montresor
Killed Fortunato
Montresor
Insulted Montresor which later on caused his death
Fortunato
Wine connoisseur
Fortunato
large barrel used for storing wines and liquor.
Cask
to escape secretly.
Absconded