Question

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the infinitives.
1. Sumit loves to go to the park and feed the ducks.
2. Barkha helps me practise my Spanish after school every day.
4. Some people had opted not to participate in the committee.
6. Where would you prefer to stay—a hotel or a homestay?
7. Even after spending an hour with him, I failed to understand what
the problem was.
8. Naina wants to find out the names of all the universities she can apply to
after school.
Read the following sentences carefully. Underline the main verbs and circle
3. If it rains today, we will have to cancel our game and stay home instead.
5. Michael has decided to swim across the English Channel next year.​

Answer 1

1. Sumit loves to go to the park and feed the ducks.
2. Barkha helps me practice my Spanish after school every day.
3. Some people had opted not to participate in the committee.
4. Where would you prefer to stay—a hotel or a homestay?
5. Even after spending an hour with him, I failed to understand what
6. the problem was.
7. Naina wants to find out the names of all the universities she can apply to after school.

3. If it rains today, we will have to cancel our game and stay home instead.

5. Michael has decided to swim across the English Channel next year.​

• In the first exercise, you are required to spot the infinitives (if any) in the given sentences.
• An infinitive is basically an un-conjugated verb. A verb in its base form can be formed as to+verb. It is very simple to spot them, all you need is to find the 'to'. Once you find the 'to' you will easily find the infinitive.
• In sentence 2, there is no infinitive as the words have already been conjugated in the present tense.

• In the second exercise, you are required to find the main verb.
• Usually, in a sentence, there will be more than one verb placed after each other. To spot the main verb you usually look at the first verb.
• In sentence 3, the main verb is 'rains' as it is in the main clause of the sentence.
• In sentence 5, the main verb is 'to swim'. The verb is conjugated in the past perfect tense and therefore 'has' is part of the conjugation and not the main verb.

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