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ELA Drills, Advanced: Punctuation 2. Which of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?
ELA Drills, Advanced: Textual Analysis 2. Which piece of evidence is irrelevant to the claim in the video?
ELA Drills, Advanced: Point of View 2. Which incident was most important in leading to the dramatic irony in the passage?
ELA Drills, Advanced: Parts of Speech 1 265 Views
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ELA Drills: Advanced: Parts of Speech 1. Separate the following words into infinitives and gerunds.
Transcript
- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by verbs who think
- 00:07
their superheroes.. to infinitive and beyond separate the following words into [man with verbs for a face flys away]
- 00:13
infinitives and gerunds and here the potential answers alright ... Well so it seems
- 00:19
we got a handful of words that don't get along so well together and we've got to [words fighting in a street]
- 00:22
a separate them you know before things get ugly we're told that there are both
Full Transcript
- 00:26
infinitive and gerunds in our list so what are they? Well that'd be a good
- 00:31
place to start huh an infinitive is the most basic form of any verb and very [infinitive definition wrote on a piece of paper]
- 00:35
often it follows the word to like the infinitive of flying is to fly an
- 00:41
infinitive of shmoop is too shmoop and the infinitive of crashes is crash - oh well [superhero crashes into a building]
- 00:47
so close and I crashed... A gerund on the other hand always has the
- 00:51
same ending "I-N-G" it can turn shout into shouting or ignore into ignoring or
- 00:57
shmoop into shmooping. With all that in mind let's take a gander at our word
- 01:01
list here two of them end in "ing" creating and making - Now those have to be [Hand separating words into infinitives and gerunds columns]
- 01:05
our gerunds, the other two to create and to make are our infinitives.. That was
- 01:10
easy and just like rescuing the world from evil according to this guy anyway [Superhero with verbs for a face on a building holding thumbs up]
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