{"id":68,"date":"2017-07-20T16:28:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T16:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/chapter\/introduction-to-non-finite-verbs\/"},"modified":"2017-07-20T16:28:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T16:28:17","slug":"introduction-to-non-finite-verbs","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/chapter\/introduction-to-non-finite-verbs\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Non-Finite Verbs","rendered":"Introduction to Non-Finite Verbs"},"content":{"raw":"<p>Just when we thought we had verbs figured out, we're brought face-to-face\u00a0with a new animal:\u00a0the non-finite verbs. These words <em>look<\/em> similar to verbs we've already been talking about, but they <em>act<\/em> quite different than those other verbs.\n\nBy definition, a non-finite verb cannot serve as the root of an independent clause. In practical terms, this\u00a0means that they don't serve as the action of a sentence. They also don't have a tense. While the sentence around them may be past, present, or future tense, the non-finite verbs themselves are neutral. There are three types of non-finite verbs: gerunds, participles, and infinitives.\n<\/p><ul><li>Gerunds all end in\u00a0<i>-ing<\/i>: <em>skiing<\/em>, <em>reading<\/em>, <em>dancing<\/em>, <em>singing<\/em>, etc.\u00a0Gerunds act like nouns and can serve as subjects or objects of sentences.<\/li>\n \t<li>A participle is is used as an adjective or an adverb.\u00a0There are two types of participle in English: the past and present participles.\n<ul><li>The present participle also takes the -<em>ing<\/em> form:\u00a0(e.g., <em>writing<\/em>, <em>singing<\/em>, and <em>raising<\/em>).<\/li>\n \t<li>The past participle typically appears like the past tense, but some have different forms: (e.g., <em>written<\/em>, <em>sung<\/em> and <em>raised<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n \t<li>The infinitive is the basic dictionary form of a verb, usually preceded by\u00a0<i>to<\/i>. Thus <i>to go<\/i> is an infinitive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<p>Just when we thought we had verbs figured out, we&#8217;re brought face-to-face\u00a0with a new animal:\u00a0the non-finite verbs. These words <em>look<\/em> similar to verbs we&#8217;ve already been talking about, but they <em>act<\/em> quite different than those other verbs.<\/p>\n<p>By definition, a non-finite verb cannot serve as the root of an independent clause. In practical terms, this\u00a0means that they don&#8217;t serve as the action of a sentence. They also don&#8217;t have a tense. While the sentence around them may be past, present, or future tense, the non-finite verbs themselves are neutral. There are three types of non-finite verbs: gerunds, participles, and infinitives.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gerunds all end in\u00a0<i>-ing<\/i>: <em>skiing<\/em>, <em>reading<\/em>, <em>dancing<\/em>, <em>singing<\/em>, etc.\u00a0Gerunds act like nouns and can serve as subjects or objects of sentences.<\/li>\n<li>A participle is is used as an adjective or an adverb.\u00a0There are two types of participle in English: the past and present participles.\n<ul>\n<li>The present participle also takes the &#8211;<em>ing<\/em> form:\u00a0(e.g., <em>writing<\/em>, <em>singing<\/em>, and <em>raising<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>The past participle typically appears like the past tense, but some have different forms: (e.g., <em>written<\/em>, <em>sung<\/em> and <em>raised<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The infinitive is the basic dictionary form of a verb, usually preceded by\u00a0<i>to<\/i>. Thus <i>to go<\/i> is an infinitive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-68\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Revision and Adaptation of Wikipedia Content. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Nonfinite verb. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Wikipedia. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nonfinite_verb\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nonfinite_verb<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":19,"menu_order":24,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Revision and Adaptation of Wikipedia Content\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Nonfinite verb\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Wikipedia\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nonfinite_verb\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-68","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":22,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/68\/revisions"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/22"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/68\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}