Gerunds | Participles | Infinitives. Verbals. Non verbs. Tips on how to identify and use them.

Gerunds | Participles | Infinitives. Verbals. Non verbs. Tips on how to identify and use them.

In this rare video, the demons of English grammar, the verbals, namely the gerund, participle, and infinitive are explained with patient, clear, step by step instruction. People across time have been flummoxed by the confusions created in identifying these items and understanding their function in the sentence.

They are not merely labels to be learnt. Not knowing them, can become a hurdle in understanding advanced grammar in later years. Middle and high school students experience great difficulty in understanding simple, compound and complex sentences for transformation when these verbals are not thoroughly understood.

Please Note: There is an error in the last sentence in this video. In the sentence, 'Trolling on the internet was Mohan's fascinating obsession....' the word 'trolling' is not a participle (as stated) but a gerund, because it answers the question 'what?' put to the verb 'was'. The whole phrase can be substituted with the word 'something'. Something was Mohan's obsession. What was Mohan's fascinating obsession? trolling...... We cannot use the 'who was' rule here. Had the sentence been: 'Mohan, trolling on the internet, was arrested', then trolling would be a participle. Mohan who was trolling on the internet was arrested would be the expanded adjectival clause. Mea culpa. Please accept apologies and this correction.

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Grammar is important in order to analyse sentence structures, which in turn will give you confidence to write by using a variety of complex constructions, although learning grammar in itself will neither make you speak or write fluently, without due mindfulness. Beginning sentences with gerunds and participles create sophistication in language. Knowing how this happens, is grammar's contribution to better language.

Follow all our grammar videos, and you will find that the layering of tips and commonalities are presented across the items. This will help you in consolidating the strategies permanently as checks to improve your understanding.

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[MANDEEPSINGH-typu]

ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING STYLE OF TEACHING ENGLISH

[aparajitas]

I was not able to understand infinitives, gerunds and participles in a whole year, but after seeing your video, I have no doubt in these things

[sunilrade]

Your English was understandable and this was the best video for verbals

[cloudyplayzyt]

Hello ma'am Nichelle here! I am truly appreciative of your efforts put into teaching this topic, I love how you replaced all the gerunds or participles with other examples of adjectives/nouns. It was extremely helpful :) Have nice day!

[engin]

A society which produces such versatile teachers, should be congratulated!

[BhavniNigam]

Very helpful video ma'am. I was very confused in gerunds, infinitive and participles. But ur video helped me a lot.

[shikhasuperstar]

That's not only a teaching but the unlerning of wrong learning.

Millions of thanks mam.

Fell in love with your teaching. ❤

[arjunpatil]

thank you ma'am for clearing my doubts you have come to my school the orchid school

[dr.shweta]

You have wonderfully and systematically explained and clarified the concepts of grammar which I could find nowhere. Your experience and confidence altogether makes it more understanding. Thank you mam

[SenthilKumar-zxjb]

Amazing! After watching this video lesson, I'm able to differentiate between Gerund and Participle. Thanks a ton Madam!

[roohidcruze]

GREAT examples ma'am... I've never understood this lesson better. Thank you so much for this video. 😊

[theprofessor]

I don't mam where you have been ....if I met you in my school's than i might be a professor in English....no one teach me English like thanks a lot...

[ganeshdhonde]

If you had been my school teacher, you would have changed my life

Lucid explanations with great knowledge ❤️

[ragapriya]

Thank you so much mam
I was not able to understand for past 1 year but now I am clear in this topic
Thanks a lot mam ☺️🙂

[mishralaksmi]

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[avkb]

Mind-blowing way of explaining things in the simplest language

[mfarooq]

Really an amazing teacher! I wish you'd have given more examples on the last point because most of students get confused there. They are not able to connect adjective with noun when there are a couple of words between them.
Thank you!

[mohdabdulmunimkhan]

Grateful to you for removing my confusion.

[ShivaniSingh-kniv]

Very experienced teacher you are mam explanation, we can Know by her teaching method

[sanjnalal]

Till today i used to think that gerunds, participles, infinitives is very hard but after watching this video it made all my doubts clear
Thank you so much