Jommel Apatay AB Pol Sci-4

Verbals
averbalisawordderivedfromaverbthatfunctionsinasentenceasanounormodifierratherthanas
averb.

Verbalsincludeinfinitives,gerunds(alsoknownasingforms),andparticiples(alsoknownasing
formsandenforms).Awordgroupbasedonaverbaliscalledaverbalphrase.

Unlikeordinaryverbs,verbalsarenotinflectedforpersonandtense.

Asanadjective,thetermverbalcanmean(1)relatingtowords(asinverbalirony),(2)spokenrather
thanwritten(asin"averbalagreement"),or(3)relatingtoorformedfromaverb(asinverbalnoun).

TypesandExamplesofVerbals

Infinitives
Infinitivesareverbals(oftenprecededbytheparticleto)thatfunctionasnouns,adjectives,or
adverbs.
"Wecanonlylearntolovebyloving."
(IrisMurdoch,TheBell.Viking,1958)

"Thebigthingistotrytobeinpositionwhenthequarterbackthrowstheball,andtodothat
youtrytoworktheanglewiththereceiverso'syoucankeephalfaneyeonthequarterbackto
seewherehelettheballgo."
(GeorgePlimpton,PaperLion,1966)

Gerunds
Gerundsareverbalsthatendiningandfunctionasnouns.
"Wecanonlylearntolovebyloving."
(IrisMurdoch,TheBell.Viking,1958)

"Fromthecookstovecamethesoftsingingofburningwoodandnowandthenathroaty
bubblerosefromapotofsimmeringgreens."
(RichardWright,"BrightandMorningStar,"1939)

Participles
Participlesareverbalsthatfunctionasadjectives.
"Iwantagoodsensiblelovingchild,onetowhomIcantellallmymostpreciouscandy
makingsecretswhileIamstillalive.
(RoaldDahl,CharlieandtheChocolateFactory.AlfredA.Knopf,1964

Verbals, such as known or swimming or to go, are verb forms that

act as adjectives, adverbs, or nouns. A verbal can never serve as a
sentence's main verb unless it is used with one or more auxiliary
verbs (has known, should be swimming)."
(Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell, The Concise Wadsworth
Handbook, 2nd ed. Thomson Wadsworth, 2008)
If you don't love yourself, you won't be happy with yourself. If you
can't love yourself, you can't love anyone else. You can't give the
love you do not have. You can't make anyone love you without
loving yourself first.
Kemi Sogunle

They say Im poor,

They say Im nothing.
They say Im poor and they say Im nothing because
Ive got nothing to offer to any living soul.
Ive got no money, no food, no child,
no wife nor husband and no home to go home
to that is because Ive got no money.
But I say Im blessed
Im blessed because God told me so.
He loves me the same way he loves every life on earth.
Im blessed because Im still alive.
I breathe the same air that rich men breathe,
I walk on the same ground that rich men walk . . .
therefore I am no different.
I am rich with life
I am rich with love
Im rich with hope that one day they will see the beauty that God
treasured in me because I am something indeed
-Londeka Zondi

But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults:
We don't understand everything about it,
but we still love it's beauty and wonder.
We know of all the dangers,
but we would still go there just because
we wanted to touch the stars.
Shannon L. Alder
 Loving someone is a choice, being in love isnt. You can
choose to love someone. You can decide you will see their best
qualities, appreciate them for who they are, and be a supportive
partner to them. You can also choose to stop loving someone, to
walk away and forget about them. Being in love is not a choice. Its
something that can happen without your intention or consent, and
its not something you can walk away from. If you leave, youll take
the feeling of being in love with you.

Loving someone is about how they make you feel,

being in love is about how you make them feel. A common
answer people give when asked why they love someone is,
Because of how they make me feel. Thats a valid answer, but if
its all about how you feel, then you probably arent actually in love.
Loving someone means you are only concerned with how he makes
you feel loved, special, or appreciated. Being in love means you
worry about how to make him feel loved as well, because thats
equally as important to you.

Loving someone is an uphill battle, being in love is

effortless. You will hear people say, It shouldnt be this hard. And
theyre right, it shouldnt. Fighting to stay connected and keep the
spark alive isnt being in love. You may love this person, but it will
inevitably turn into a situation where you feel like youre just forcing
it. Im not saying that a relationship with someone youre in love
with will always be easy, just that the feeling of being in love will be
there without any effort. Some days will be difficult. Some days will
seem to take everything you have. But at the end of the hard days,
or the hard months, you will always feel that you are in love with
each other.