Georgia 7.L.GC.1.57
The Standard
Usage: Form and use verbals and verbal phrases (participles/participials, gerunds, and infinitives) based on function. (Introduce)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Language (L) · Grammar Conventions
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students recognize gerunds, participles, infinitives, and the phrases built around them. They determine each phrase’s job in a sentence, then use it correctly in their own writing.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can identify each type of verbal and explain whether it acts as a noun, adjective, or adverb. They can write clear sentences with verbal phrases and fix misplaced or dangling modifiers.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often label every word ending in “-ing” as a gerund, even when it acts as a verb or adjective. They may confuse infinitives with prepositional phrases beginning with “to” or write participial phrases that modify the wrong noun.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: In “Swimming builds endurance, and athletes training daily hope to improve,” underline each verbal, name its type, and state its job.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips to sort into gerunds, participles, and infinitives, then match each strip to its noun, adjective, or adverb function.
Ask students to explain how “Running water filled the ditch” differs from “Running builds strength,” using the job of each verbal.
Play verbal phrase bingo using teacher-read sentences, with squares labeled gerund, participle, infinitive, noun job, adjective job, and adverb job.
Have students revise three school announcements by adding verbal phrases, such as “To enter the contest” or “Students carrying permission slips.”
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- K.L.GC.1.6
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- 9.L.GC.1.57
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