1. GERUND
EXAMPLES:
• Swimming the mile is my best event.
• I like swimming the mile.
• My best event is swimming the mile.
• I gave swimming the mile a try.
• He lectured us about swimming the mile.
• My best event, swimming the mile, was canceled.
2. INFINITIVE
Center around TO + verb
Verb is “naked” – No endings (-ing, -ed, etc.)
Examples: to go, to sit, to talk, etc.
Can be used as noun, adj. or adv.
Caution! Do not confuse with prepositional phrases using “to”
(to school, to me, to us, to them, to lunch, etc.)
3. PARTICIPLE
Examples:
• The frowning clown fell down. (article/ adj./noun)
• The clown, frowning at the crowd, fell down.
• Frowning at the crowd, the clown fell down.