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Sntchaitu07 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

How to identify a real verb from a verbal phrase

In the below sentence how to identify real verbs and verbal phrases.

I do a little gardening and try to relax my mind.
  

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Hello, sntchaitu—and welcome to English Forums.

We would like you to attempt your own work first, so please give us the answers that you think are correct, and then we will check them for you. Verbs name the action in a sentence.
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Thanks for your reply.
My answers :
gardening is a verbal phrase
try to relax my is another verbal phrase and finally [do] is the real verb.Please let me know your comments.
Thanks
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Welcome to EF, sntchaitu!
sntchaitu07Gardening is a verbal phrase.
Gardening is a noun as object of the verb do in the verb phrase do a little gardening.
sntchaitu07Try to relax my is another verbal phrase…
Almost: try to relax my mind is a verb phrase.
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Thanks for your comments.
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sntchaitu07 Thanks for your reply. My answers : gardening is a verbal phrasetry to relax my is another verbal phrase and finally [do] is the real verb.Please let me know your comments.Thanks
I do a little gardening and try to relax my mind.

This is a sentence with a compound verb. Sometimes you can replace the phrases that look like verbs with adverb
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