Identify infinite and participle phrases in the following?

Question

Please identify the participle and infinitive phrases.
1. To skate around the neighborhood was Lee's favorite pastime.
2. Racing around his in-line skates, he felt as if he were flying.
3. Then one afternoon, prevented from skating by the rain, Lee wondered about the history of skates.
4. He decided to search the Internet for information.
5. Lee learned that Joseph Merlin, an eighteenth-century Dutchman, was the first person to adapt ice skates for the use on dry land.
6. Merlin's idea was to attach wooden spools to a plate that supported them.
7. First fashioned in 1763, skates with metal wheels were in use for a century.
8. Appearing in 1863, the first modern skates were invented by an American.
9. Skates with more durable ball-bearing wheels, introduced later in the nineteenth century, popularized roller skating.
10. At the end of the afternoon, Lee exclaimed, "It's fun to know the history of skates!"
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zinnprojectbig · Accepted Answer

1. To skate around the neighborhood
2. Racing around his in-line skates
3. prevented from skating by the rain
4. to search the Internet for information
5. to adapt ice skates for the use on dry land.
6.  to attach wooden spools
7. First fashioned in 1763
8. Appearing in 1863
9. Introduced later in the nineteenth century
10. to know the history of skates

Infinitives start with "to."  Participles are of two sorts: present and past.  Present participles end in "-ing" and past participles (regular ones) end in "-ed".

In other exercises, remember not to confuse past participles with other forms.

Look at these:
walk walked walked walking
do    did       done  doing
go    went     gone  going

The "done" and "gone" are the past participles.  It is easy to tell them from the "did" and "went" simple past.  However, you have to notice that "walked" and "walked" look alike but are not always the same.

If I say "I walked to school," I have used the simple past form.
If I say "My dog was walked by my little sister", then I have used the past participle form.

? · Answer

i imagine that the third one isnt a participle word. in case you're taking out that section the sentence would not quite have any meat, it needs that "chew" as a thanks to logically make experience. the others do not quite outcome the meaning in case you've been to take it out.

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Identify infinite and participle phrases in the following?

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