Exercise,Parsing Verbs,Verbals,Verb Phrases - Parts Of Speech-ESL/Learn English Grammar

Exercise

Parse the verbs, verbals, and verb phrases in the following
sentences:--

1. Byron builds a structure that repeats certain elements in nature or
humanity.

2. The birds were singing as if there were no aching hearts, no sin
nor sorrow, in the world.

3. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let
the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and
play on its summit.

4. You are gathered to your fathers, and live only to your country in
her grateful remembrance.

5. Read this Declaration at the head of the army.

6. Right graciously he smiled on us, as rolled from wing to wing,
Down all the line, a deafening shout, "God save our Lord the King!"

7. When he arose in the morning, he thought only of her, and wondered
if she were yet awake.

8. He had lost the quiet of his thoughts, and his agitated soul
reflected only broken and distorted images of things.

9. So, lest I be inclined
To render ill for ill,
Henceforth in me instill,
O God, a sweet good will.

10. The sun appears to beat in vain at the casements.

11. Margaret had come into the workshop with her sewing, as usual.

12. Two things there are with memory will abide--
Whatever else befall--while life flows by.

13. To the child it was not permitted to look beyond into the hazy
lines that bounded his oasis of flowers.

14. With them, morning is not a new issuing of light, a new bursting
forth of the sun; a new waking up of all that has life, from a sort of
temporary death.

15. Whatever ground you sow or plant, see that it is in good
condition.

16. However that be, it is certain that he had grown to delight in
nothing else than this conversation.

17. The soul having been often born, or, as the Hindoos say,
"traveling the path of existence through thousands of births," there
is nothing of which she has not gained knowledge.

18. The ancients called it ecstasy or absence,--a getting-out of their
bodies to think.

19. Such a boy could not whistle or dance.

20. He had rather stand charged with the imbecility of skepticism than
with untruth.

21. He can behold with serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition
of man and his power of performance.

22. He passed across the room to the washstand, leaving me upon the
bed, where I afterward found he had replaced me on being awakened by
hearing me leap frantically up and down on the floor.

23. In going for water, he seemed to be traveling over a desert plain
to some far-off spring.

24. Hasheesh always brings an awakening of perception which magnifies
the smallest sensation.

25. I have always talked to him as I would to a friend.

26. Over them multitudes of rosy children came leaping to throw
garlands on my victorious road.

27. Oh, had we some bright little isle of our own!

28. Better it were, thou sayest, to consent;
Feast while we may, and live ere life be spent.

29. And now wend we to yonder fountain, for the hour of rest is at
hand.