Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Phrase and Clause Placement
Choose the best placement for the phrase or clause in the sentences provided!
Grammar Tips
Grammar Tips: Nonfinite Verb Forms (Verbals)
This resource offers a clear explanation of verbals and their proper use. There are some examples, but the resource is primarily devoted to definition.
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Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Participial Phrases [Pdf]
This PDF can be used as an overhead or handout. It shows how sentences can be strengthened when two or more sentences are combined with the use of participial phrases.
English Zone
English zone.com: Noun Clauses: Using Infinitives
An interactive exercise with four examples followed by ten sentences. Students complete each question by combining two sentences while using an infinitive phrase. When finished, students can check to see how many answers are correct.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Gerunds and Infinitives: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces gerunds and infinitives and explains how they are used. This lesson is part 2 of 3 in the series titled "Gerunds and Infinitives."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Gerunds and Infinitives: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces gerunds and infinitives and how they are used. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Gerunds and Infinitives."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Infinitives
To define infinitives and to discuss the different roles they play and locations they occupy in a sentence.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Verbals: Gerunds
This site defines gerunds as verbal phrases and provides several examples, but it also goes through several steps to gerund identification.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Verbals: Participles
This site defines participles as verbal phrases (participial phrase) and provides several examples, but it also goes through several steps to participle identification.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Phrases: Infinitive
After examining the infinitive and the object of the infinitive in previous lessons, this lesson focuses solely on the infinitive phrase. A definition is provided along with several examples.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Verbals: Infinitives
Part of a larger section on verbals, this site defines infinitives as verbal phrases and provides several examples, but it also goes through several steps to infinitive identification.
College Claparede (Switzerland)
English Exercises Online: Use of the Gerund
Practice creating the gerund form of words by typing them into boxes within a set of ten sentences. Hints are available if needed, and answers can be checked when the exercise is finished.