ShmoopTube

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by verbs who think

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their superheroes.. to infinitive and beyond separate the following words into [man with verbs for a face flys away]

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infinitives and gerunds and here the potential answers alright ... Well so it seems

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we got a handful of words that don't get along so well together and we've got to [words fighting in a street]

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a separate them you know before things get ugly we're told that there are both

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infinitive and gerunds in our list so what are they? Well that'd be a good

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place to start huh an infinitive is the most basic form of any verb and very [infinitive definition wrote on a piece of paper]

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often it follows the word to like the infinitive of flying is to fly an

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infinitive of shmoop is too shmoop and the infinitive of crashes is crash - oh well [superhero crashes into a building]

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so close and I crashed... A gerund on the other hand always has the

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same ending "I-N-G" it can turn shout into shouting or ignore into ignoring or

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shmoop into shmooping. With all that in mind let's take a gander at our word

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list here two of them end in "ing" creating and making - Now those have to be [Hand separating words into infinitives and gerunds columns]

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our gerunds, the other two to create and to make are our infinitives.. That was

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easy and just like rescuing the world from evil according to this guy anyway [Superhero with verbs for a face on a building holding thumbs up]

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