50 Examples of Non-Personal Forms of the Verb

Non-personal forms of the verb

The non-personal forms of the verb They are the three verb forms that do not admit conjugation, that is, they do not express the characteristics of the verb (time, mode, number and person). The non-personal forms of the verb, also called “verboids”Are three: infinitive (to love), gerund (loving), and participle (loved).

In a sentence they don't work like verbs but they take the role adverbs (the gerund), nouns (the infinitive) or adjectives (the participle).

The personal forms of the verb, on the other hand, are all conjugated verbs, that is, those that have a person and number morpheme and report on the subject and the weather Of action. For example: they run, we run.

Infinitive, gerund and participle

Sentences with non-personal forms of the verb

1. Having other options, I don't think I will accept. (Gerund)
2. May l watch to the kids sitting in the bank. (Infinitive and participle)
3. It is a dress designed in France. (Participle)
4. Let's go faster than it already is raining. (Gerund)
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5. She hates clean up. (Infinitive)
6. We saw a flock of seagulls flying. (Gerund)
7. They found her passed out In the bath. (Participle)
8. After work i like to cook. (Infinitive)
9. The only way to win me it is buying to the jury. (Infinitive and gerund)
10. She gave him a sculpture carved in oak. (Participle)
11. Having solved the conflict, they returned to to be friends (participle and infinitive).
12. Imagine sheep jumping a fence. (Gerund)
13. It is necessary concentrate our efforts in the immediate goal. (Infinitive)
14. The trees will be transplanted to the garden. (Participle)
15. Let's pause to drink one cofee. (Infinitive)
16. Even the smallest particles will be aspirated. (Participle)
17. The guests left singing. (Gerund)
18. It's not healthy to smoke. (Infinitive)
19. We will spend the afternoon painting home. (Gerund)
20. The boy said that he did it without wantto damage to nobody. (Infinitive)
21. It seemed very altered For the news. (Participle)
22. They will only come to an agreement negotiating. (Gerund)
23. I can not stand hear those kids screaming. (Infinitive and gerund)

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Infinitive functions

By assuming the role of a noun, the infinitive can take on one of these roles: