{"id":1728,"date":"2017-01-03T16:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T16:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2020-08-31T03:40:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T03:40:27","slug":"non-finite-verbs-worksheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/non-finite-verbs-worksheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-finite verbs worksheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Identify the non-finite verbs in the following sentences and state their kind (infinitive, present participle, gerund).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learn how to identify <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RZCvVIABFm4\">finite and non-finite verbs by watching this video. <\/a>You can watch this<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XvPc6LZUFT4\"> finite and non-finite verbs video in Malayalam<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>1. I want water to drink.<\/p>\n<p>2. Singing is his favorite pastime.<\/p>\n<p>3. I am sorry to hear this.<\/p>\n<p>4. We drank the sparkling water.<\/p>\n<p>5. She was depressed to hear the news.<\/p>\n<p>6. Trespassing is prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>7. Following his father\u2019s footsteps, he became an advocate.<\/p>\n<p>8. A rolling stone gathers no mosses.<\/p>\n<p>9. Would it be easy for you to phone me tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p>10. I will be happy to help you.<\/p>\n<p>11. I dislike people telling me what to think.<\/p>\n<p>Answers<\/p>\n<p>1. I want water <strong>to drink<\/strong>. (infinitive)<\/p>\n<p>2. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Singing<\/span> is his favorite pastime. (gerund)<\/p>\n<p>3. I am sorry <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to hear<\/span> this. (infinitive)<\/p>\n<p>4. We drank the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sparkling<\/span> water. (participle)<\/p>\n<p>5. She was depressed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to hear<\/span> the news. (infinitive)<\/p>\n<p>6. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Trespassing<\/span> is prohibited. (gerund)<\/p>\n<p>7. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Following<\/span> his father\u2019s footsteps, he became an advocate. (participle)<\/p>\n<p>8. A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">rolling<\/span> stone gathers no mosses. (participle)<\/p>\n<p>9. Would it be easy for you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to phone<\/span> me tomorrow? (infinitive)<\/p>\n<p>10. I will be happy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to help<\/span> you. (infinitive)<\/p>\n<p>11. I dislike people <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">telling<\/span> me what to think. (gerund)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identify the non-finite verbs in the following sentences and state their kind (infinitive, present participle, gerund). Learn how to identify finite and non-finite verbs by watching this video. You can watch this finite and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[348],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-8-worksheets","tag-non-finite-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74741,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/74741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}