Verbs: an intimate view
Tea VERBAL It is NOT a furry animal.
It is like a multitasking worker who can do more than one thing at a time. Such as personal refers to a person, doctor refers to medicine, legal refers to the law, sexual refers to sex, and remission refers to a reference to anything to which the ending -Alabama is attached, so does verbal refer to the verb.
Quick review of noun and verb functions:
The verb is the word in the sentence that shows action or state of being. Ants carry rocks. Carry it is the word that shows the action of what the ants do.
Ants is a noun and the subject of the action word carry. Shows who or what is doing the action.
Rocks It is a noun that shows the object or the receiver of the action that the ants carry out.
FOR verbal it is a form of a verb that functions as another part of speech. The three basic shapes are gerund, tea participles and the infinitive. They are defined, explained, and demonstrated in the following sections.
Section 1: The gerund [The -ING thing]
The form of a verb that ends in -In g and it acts as a noun is called GERUND.
It is easily recognized by its spelling: it is a verb form that ends with -In g.
VERB GERUND
carry carrying
run run
jump jumping
do doing
flattened flattened
dumping dumping
mean mean
love love
postulate postulate
sleep sleeping
walk walking
talk talking
bowled over
take taking
sweep sweep
eat eating
dance dancing
suffer suffering
stretched out
zoom zoom
But that is not the only requirement. It MUST be used as a noun. This assumes that you know that a noun is that term that names a person, place, thing or idea. Gerunds are not people, places, or things; but they ARE ideas taken from verbs. The words in the first column are words that may be verbs if they show the action in a sentence. Consider the following sentences that use the words in the first column above as verbs. The second sentence shows that same verb with a -In g is used as a noun and how it is used as a noun in that sentence.
1st. Hunters carry guns to ward off swarms of mosquitoes.
Carry is the action word that shows what hunters do with weapons.
It is the main verb of the sentence.
1 B. For mosquitoes that carries weapons are superfluous; they have their own weapons.
That carries is a verbal (the -In g verb form) used as a noun.
The verbal That carries, is the subject of the sentence. That is the noun part of the verbal.
Tea verb part of the verbal takes a object (direct object) as any transitive verb can. That object, or receiver, is pistols. So the whole subject of the sentence is the verbal that carries And it is object pistols.
2nd. I to run faster than I walk.
To run is the main verb of the sentence.
2b. Sometimes in a hurry It has taken me no further than if I had walked.
[The verbal running (the -ing form of the verb)is used as the subject of the verb has gotten.]
3rd. you jump a ladies man to capture him.
Jump is the main verb of the independent clause.
3b. Jump a man in public can be considered assault and battery.
Jump is the verb form of the verb that functions as the subject of the verb It can be considered.
4th. you do what you do when you can because if you don’t, you won’t.
Verbs do are the main verbs in each of their respective clauses.
4b. You can do more for doing what you say instead of saying that you will do what you have not done.
The verbal doing is the verbal act as a noun that functions as the object of the preposition by.
5th. When the children smash Without realizing it, some parents are infatuated with humor.
Flatulate is the verb of the introductory adverbial dependent clause.
5b. Society can discourage crushing in crowded theaters.
Flattening is the direct object (a noun, in this case) of the main verb May discourages]
6th. Dump your garbage in the landfill where legal dumping is allowed.
Dump is the main verb of the independent clause that works as an imperative.
6b. Put your trash in the trash where it’s legal dumping is allowed.
Dumping is the subject of the verb is allowed in the adverbial dependent clause.
7a. To mean his assent raising two fingers of his left hand.
To mean is the imperative verb of the sentence.
7b. The elevation of two fingers of the left hand, meaning nod, it’s appropriate for now.
Significant is a verbal noun that works as an appositive to change the name of the subject of the sentence,elevation.
8a. I love you.
Love is the verb of the sentence.
8b. We enjoy affectionate mutually.
Affectionate is a verbal noun that functions as the direct object of the main verb of the sentence, to enjoy.
9a. Teachers postulate their hypotheses based on empirical evidence.
Postulate is the verb of the sentence.
9b. Applying you are forming opinions based on factual support.
Applying is the subject of the verb it is.
10 a. I to sleep days because I work at night.
To sleep is the verb of the independent clause.
10b. There is no harm in asleep a total of eight hours per day.
Asleep is a verbal noun that functions as the object of the preposition on.
Additional check: a gerund is a -In g form of a verb that acts as a noun. Therefore, anything a noun can do, a GERUND can. It can be subject of a sentence, direct object, appositive, indirect object, object of a preposition and more.
Example I:
1. Carry is a verb like in the sentence Ants carry rocks.
Tea -In g form of the verb is that carries.
Use that carries as a noun, note the following:
For. That carries Rocks are not an easy task for ants..
The subject of the sentence is that carries. It works as a noun.
B. Ants develop leg strength by that carries rocks
In this sentence that carries is the object of the preposition by. It works as a noun.
vs. Ants must hate that carries rocks
Here the word that carries works as the direct object of the verb rush. It is still a noun.
Notice the next word that carries in each case they remain the same.
As in the original sentence (The ants carry stones), the direct object of the verb carry it does not change. Still is rocks. The reason is that the gerund retains its verbal quality. As a noun, it works like nouns do; as a verb, it still does what verbs do: take objects and modifiers.
Example II:
2. To run is a verb in the sentence Some athletes to run a great marathon.
Tea -In g form of the verb is in a hurry.
Use in a hurry as a noun, note the following:
For. In a hurry a great marathon is not an easy task for some athletes.
The subject of the sentence is running. It works as a noun.
B. Some athletes gain fame for in a hurry a great marathon.
In this sentence, in a hurry is the object of the preposition by. It works as a noun.
vs. Some athletes love in a hurry a great marathon.
Here the word in a hurry it is the direct object of the sentence. It is still a noun.
As in the original sentence (Some athletes run a great marathon), marathon remains the direct object of the verbal in a hurry. In a hurry it is part of verb and part of noun as in the first example that carries It is part verb and part noun.
The schizoid nature of the verbal becomes clear when it can be seen that, as a word that conveniently presents itself as a noun and a verb, a kind of dual personality, it can be modified by words that describe nouns as well as those that describe verbs at the same weather. Using the same examples above, note the following:
It is not to be expected that he will carry stones willingly.
For. That carries it is still a gerund or verbal noun. It is still the subject of prayer.
B. As a noun, take the adjective Edit me.
vs. As a verb, take the adverb Edit readily.
Example III:
Here is another variation on the same theme.
Careless hauling of rocks through swampy meadows can be a difficult situation for distracted ants.
For. Again, that carries it is still the subject of prayer.
B. As a noun it is modified by the adjective neglected.
vs. Or it could be changed to be modified by an adverb, sloppily.
D. As a verb, it can be modified by two adverbial prepositional sentences, through swampy meadows and for distracted ants.
Practice: Look at the following sentences. Identify the gerund and establish how it works as a noun. [Use your own paper. Don’t write on the monitor.]
1. I walk three hundred centimeters a day because my doctor told me that walking is necessary for health and high arches.
2. My conversation with them falls on deaf ears. As I speak to you, you are still speaking. The conversation never stops.
3. Don’t gawk at the squawks; they don’t like to gawk. For them, it is uncivilized.
4. Take me to your leader. He likes to take names of friends and enemies.
5. There is no possibility of a sweep in the World Series as no team can sweep if a team has avoided being swept by winning a game. Sweeping means lack of skill.
6. Dance the dance and do pranks if you like to dance and prank.
7. Eat with your heart, pizza lovers. Eating pizza is my specialty.
8. That you do not suffer more than the pain lasts; suffering is, in fact, quite painful.
9. The hens that lay eggs are on strike because their eggs have caused some of them to be fired.
10. A zoom lens on a camera allows the photographer to get closer to a subject who does not appreciate the finer aspects of getting closer to a subject like himself.
INNUENDO! Most gerunds can be replaced by the word IT. However, the substitution is intended only for the gerund itself and NOT for any of the modifiers or objects of its verbal function. Apply this principle to the previous examples.
1. Carrying rocks is not an easy task for ants.
For. That carries is the gerund
Drill bits is the object of the gerund
Substitution: IT is not an easy task for ants.
2. Ants develop leg strength by that carries rocks
For. that carries is the gerund
B. rocks is still the object of carrying
Substitution: ants develop leg strength thanks to information technology.
3. Ants must hate that carries rocks
For. that carries is the gerund
B. rocks is still the object of carrying
Substitution: the ants must hate it.
In example II (above) with in a hurry as verbal, note the following substitutions.
1. It is not an easy task for some athletes..
2. Some athletes gain fame thanks to information technology.
3. Some athletes love it.
ABSTRACT:
The GERUND is a verb form that is used as a noun and only as a noun. But he retains his ability to take modifiers from both his substantive personality and his verbal personality. It is recognizable by two characteristics that are inseparable:
1. Must have a -In g
2. It must function as a noun in some way.