Parts of speech

What are the parts of speech in the following ?

I am blond.

Frayer foldable

Fold your paper in half and then half again

After you fold twice into a 4 square, find the center of the paper. This will be the corner with 2 folded sides. Fold over a small triangle at this corner. It will create a diamond in the center of your four-square. This is where the word you are focusing on will go.

​Infinitive

​Definition

​What it is

​What it is NOT

Why is it an important term?

​Infinitive

​Definition

​What it is

​What it is NOT

Why is it an important term?

• a verb that is not conjugated

  • Rob to be blond. (doesnt' sound right)

• verb in general form

• English always has to in front of it

  • to eat, to have, to run, to talk...

• a verb with a subject/conjugated

  • Rob is blond.

• a verb without to in front of it

  • I run very fast.

​Infinitive

​Definition

​What it is

​What it is NOT

Why is it an important term?

• a verb that is not conjugated

  • Rob to be blond. (doesnt' sound right)

• verb in general form

• English always has to in front of it

  • to eat, to have, to run, to talk...

• any language teacher uses this word.

• it is the form for looking up the
  meaning of a word

• it is used gramatically many ways

• a verb with a subject/conjugated

  • Rob is blond.

• a verb without to in front of it

  • I run very fast.

​Infinitive

​Definition

​What it is

​What it is NOT

Why is it an important term?

• a verb that is not conjugated

  • Rob to be blond. (doesnt' sound right)

• verb in general form

• English always has to in front of it

  • to eat, to have, to run, to talk...

• any language teacher uses this word.

• it is the form for looking up the
  meaning of a word

• it is used gramatically many ways

• a verb with a subject/conjugated

  • Rob is blond.

• a verb without to in front of it

  • I run very fast.

An infinitive is a verbal consisting of the word to plus a verb (in its simplest "stem" form) and functioning as a noun, adjective, or adverb.