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Question

IDENTIFYING AND CLASSIFYING VERBAL PHRASES Most of the following sentences contain verbal phrases. Underline each verbal phrase, and classify it by writing PART for participial phrase or INF for infinitive phrase on the line provided. If a sentence does not contain a verbal phrase, write NONE on the line.


Example 1. INF Under international rules, a soccer team is allowed to substitute
only two players per game.






______ Octavio Paz was the first Mexican author to receive the Nobel Prize.

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Answer 1

This is no automatic homework processor!

Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you!
So, it is no homework? OK, I”ll try again:

”He was the first to receive”
The infinitive ’to receive’ actually replaces a
relative clause: he was the first who received.

This is a special phenomenon in English,
after a superlative (the first, the best, the most ...)
you can add a relative extension by means of
an infinitive clause (he was the first to do ...,
she was the most valuable to be elected ...)

To come back to your question, it is certainly not
a participal phrase but an INF one.

Hope to have made up for my initial suspicion!

Answer 2

A verb is an action.... So think of it like this:
- Anything a squirrel can do to or with a tree is a verb.
ex. The squirrel can _substitute_ the tree for a bush. The squirrel can _receive_ the tree as a present. The squirrel can _set_ the tree on fire.

Participle: The participle form of a verb includes all other modified versions of the verb. Past tense, present tense, gerund, etc.
- Examples: Running, ran, jumped, eaten, ate, eating.

Infinitive: The infinitive form of a verb is the 'to' form.
- Examples: To be, to use, to substitute, to receive, to set, to kick. Often times, the dictionary defines verbs in the infinitive form.

If you follow these steps with the sentence, you should get:
'Infinitive' on the verb 'to receive'.