VERBALS

VERBALS............................................ 3

1. FORMS OF VERBALS......................................... 4

2. MEANING OF VERBALS.......................................5

3. NOMINAL AND VERBAL CHARACTERISTICS OF INFINITIVE..... 6

4. NOMINAL AND VERBAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GERUND........ 6

5. ADJECTIVAL/ADVERBIAL AND VERBAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTICIPLE I...................................................7

6. INFINITIVE WITHOUT THE PARTICLE “TO”..................... 8

7. FUNCTIONS OF INFINITIVE................................... 9

8. INFINITIVE AS ATTRIBUTE................................... 11

9. OBJECTIVE INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTION.......................11

10. SUBBJECTIVE INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTION................... 12

11. FOR-INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS........................... 13

12. FUNCTIONS OF GERUND.................................... 13

13. GERUNDIAL AND HALF-GERUNDIAL CONSTRUCTIONS....... 15

14. FUNCIONS OF GERUNDIAL CONSTRUCTIONS................. 16

15. RIGHT-HAND COMBINABILITY OF SOME VERBS

(VERB + PREPOSITION + GERUND).............................. 16

16. RIGHT-HAND COMBINABILITY OF SOME ADJECTIVES (ADJECTIVE + PREPOSITION + GERUND).........................17

17. RIGHT-HAND COMBINABILITY OF SOME NOUNS

(NOUN + PREPOSITION + GERUND)..............................18

18. INFINITIVE OR GERUND.................................... 19

19. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INFINITIVE AND GERUND............ 21

20. GERUND AND VERBAL NOUN COMPARED................... 24

21. FUNCTIONS OF PARTICIPLE I................................ 25

22. FUNCTIONS OF PARTICIPLE II............................... 26

23. OBJECTIVE PARTICIPIAL CONSTRUCTIONS

(COMPLEX OBJECT)........................................... 27

24. SUBJECTIVE PARTICIPIAL CONSTRUCTIONS

(COMPLEX SUBJECT).......................................... 27

25. PARTICIPLE I AND GERUND COMPARED..................... 28

26. ABSOLUTE CONSTRUCTIONS............................... 29

27. ACTIVE AND PASSIVE INFINITIVE WITH SIMILAR MEANING... 30

PRACTICE...........................................31

REFERENCES....................................... 83

Verbm

Finite Forms (conjugated)

Non-Finite Forms (= Verbals = Verbids) Infinitive Gerund Participle

 

VERBALS

Verbals include three non-finite forms of the verb: the infinitive, the gerund and the participle.

Unlike the finite forms of the verb, they do not express the grammatical categories of person, number and mood. Therefore they cannot be used as the predicate of the sentence.