Verboidal Predicate Example

There are predicates that express an action performed by a subject, or sometimes the action with direct, indirect or circumstantial complements, which they do not use conjugated verbs, but the impersonal forms of verbs. These predicates are the verboidal predicates.

Verbs have two ways of expressing action. The personal form, which consists of the verb conjugation, which agrees in gender and number with the subject, and the impression forms, which express the action of the verb in the abstract (infinitive), which takes place at the moment it is spoken (gerund) or which has already been carried out (participle). These forms generally do not agree in gender or number with the subject, when there is one, with the exception of the participle, which can agree in gender and number.

In the verboidal predicates the three impersonal forms are used, infinitive, gerund or participle, to express an action, sometimes with a direct, indirect or circumstantial object:

Work all afternoon.
Walking home.
Spent the money.

It is important to bear in mind that these impersonal forms must be found without verb complements, as in the case of conjugations or passive forms, in the case of the gerund and the participle:

I was walking home (in this case the expression i was walking is a passive form of the verb to walk, so it is not verboidal predicate).

Walking home (here the expression walking it only expresses an action that is performed at the moment in which it is spoken, without mentioning the subject or agreeing with the subject, so this is a verboidal predicate)

Was spent the money (In this case was spent it is a verbal construction with the auxiliary verb to be, which indicates the time, person and number of the subject (money) in the passive action of being spent, so it is a simple predicate).

Spent the money (In this case the participle only indicates the action performed, and "the money" here is the direct object of the sentence, so this is a verboidal predicate).

It must also be taken into account that in some impersonal forms work as a complement, that is, they do not carry the main action of the predicate:

TO to work Lasted! (here the action to work is the main action of the verboidal predicate)
I was late for work yesterday (here to work It works as a direct or circumstantial complement, since it tells what or where it was late.)
We came back home walking (Here walking it is a circumstantial complement).
Walking for lifeWalking expresses the action of the predicate, it is verboidal predicate)
They will only pay for the work finished (In this sentence finished expresses the circumstance of the work, that is, it works as an adverb)
Finally, finished the journey (in this sentence finished expresses the main action of the verboidal predicate).

In many cases the verboidal predicate is a shortened form of a passive sentence. It can also be expressed as the answer to a question, so it is common for the subject to be separated by a comma, even the subject can express himself in an interrogative way:

Juan, working in the countryside; Mary, cooking In the House.
What does your son do? - Richard? To wander all day.
The money livestock In the sweat of my brow.

50 examples of sentences with verboidal predicates:

1. Walked the road, no one returns to us.
2. TO eat lunch.
3. Ana, remembering her sad past ...
4. Juan working in the workshop.
5. Money spent in vain.
6. Me arriving late again.
7. TO to work With encouragement.
8. Read a book before bed.
9. Job finished on time.
10. Men working.
11. Course started March 2nd.
12. Called to work.
13. Finished to high gloss.
14. Going forward slow but safe.
15. Reach a star.
16. To get in the subway.
17. To travel in first class.
18. Laughing heartily.
19. To the to return of the ads.
20. Listening Radio.
21. Turned without pain or glory.
22. Warming up water for coffee.
23. Saying all previous.
24. A dog howling pitifully in the distance.
25. Regrets drowned In the darkness of the night.
26. Souls grieving on the streets.
27. Soldiers parading during the national holidays.
28. Students writing his homeworks.
29. Machinery sight through a window.
30. The cars circulating on the road.
31. The oasis crossing the desert.
32. The award for end up the race.
33. A toast to Finalize the courses.
34. Answered the exam is time.
35. Done in Mexico.
36. Tool finished carbon.
37. To the blunt dawn.
38. A dawn cultural.
39. Stopped in front of his fortune.
40. Dead the dog…
41. The plague, rampaging fields.
42. The winds pulling trees.
43. Awakening again at midnight.
44. Slept until noon.
45. Polished Car.
46. Finished The conference.
47. Prize the group.
48. Juan, locked at the address.
49. The forest, Burned after the fire.
50. Young people, to to write essay.