Verbal Unit Test Answer Key

1.  Born in New York City - participial

2.  Educated by private tutors at home - participial

3.  to write poetry at the age of sixteen - infinitive

4.  to marry Edward Wharton, a wealthy Boston banker.  - infinitive (If you did not have the appositive a wealthy banker attached to the answer, you would not lose any points since this is something we did not discuss.)

5.  to write seriously - infinitive

6.  contributing poems and stories to magazines - gerund

7.  to spend the latter part of her life in France - infinitive

8.  existing in society - participial

9.  to live with the narrow confines of convention - infinitive

10.  writing The Age of Innocence - gerund (At first glance, this phrase might seem like a participial phrase modifying the word she; however, this phrase is a gerund because it is the object of the preposition after.)

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