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Gerunds, Participles and Infinitives are verbals. Verbals are made from verbs and are powerful like verbs, but actually act as other parts of speech.

A gerund is a verb that acts like a noun and ends in -ing.

A participle is a verb that acts like an adjective and ends in -ing or -ed.

An infinitive is a verb that acts like an noun, adjective or an adverb and is introduced by to.

Gerunds, Participles & Infinitives - Examples

Gerunds Laughing is useless.

"Laughing" is the subject. The actual verb: is.
Participles The concept of the boat hull splitting terrifies me.

"Splitting" modifies boat hull. The actual verb: terrifies.
Infinitives A long time ago, I was frightened to swim in the ocean.

"To swim" acts as an adverb modifying the adjective frightened. The actual verb: was.

 
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