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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

In the sentence below whats the verbal and what kind it is.

The leak in the sink produced a constant dripping.

Verbal:

a) dripping

b) leak

c) produced

d) constant

Kind:

a) participle

b) infinite

c) gerund

I don't understand this question one bit so if you can help and explain that would be greatly appreciated.
  

Top answer

I think they are looking for c) produced, infinite past tense. The leak produced the sound, so produced is the verb, right? And what form does it have?

  • I think they are looking for c) produced, infinite past tense.
  • The leak produced the sound, so produced is the verb, right?
  • And what form does it have?
  • Well both gerunds and participles end in -ing, so it must be infinite (the "to ***" form), and it seems to be in past tense.
  • Well thats how I see it, hope it helps.
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I think they are looking for c) produced, infinite past tense.

The leak produced the sound, so produced is the verb, right? And what form does it have? Well both gerunds and participles end in -ing, so it must be infinite (the "to ***" form), and it seems to be in past tense.

Well thats how I see it, hope it helps.

Cheers
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A verbal is a word that derives from some verb but is not used as a verb in a sentence. You can recognize them because they are some verb and usually end in -ing, or -ed. In the sentence "produced" is the verb, so it is not a verbal. Leak is a noun, constant is an adjective. So the only verbal is "dripping."

Note that "dripping," although derived from the verb "to drip", does not func
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A verbal is a word made from an action word (verb), but does not act as a verb in the sentence.

Drip is a verb. Here it is used as a verb in the sentence:

The water dripped off of the umbrella.

The faucet drips constantly.

Here it is a verbal (participle):

The dripping faucet drives me crazy.

Dripping is an adjective. It de
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Aha thank you both for the information, I just learned something new, I was not aware that verbal and verb is not the same, thank you and sorry to the OP.
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You can never have a infinitive with the ending ed, ing, es, s
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AnonymousYou can never have a infinitive with the ending ed, ing, es, s
I disagree.
The verbs hiss, harass, bus and muss are infinitives ending in s
Speed and need are infinitives ending in -ed. (The police car speeds down the highway, sirens blaring.)

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