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  Understanding Verbs: Gerunds, Participles, & Infinitives

Exercise 3

Underline the infinitives in each sentence.

  1. Clay goes to his grandmother’s house to eat homemade sweets.
  2. The purpose of the class was to teach children how to swim.
  3. The hostess asked Jill to refill the punch bowl.
  4. To clean the house seemed like an impossible task.
  5. Doris was asked to host the baby shower.

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