VERBAL SONG (THREE BLIND VERBALS)
Participles are adjectives, it’s simple:
Present, Past, and Future: Active and Passive.
[Present]: Reading… being read,
[Past]: Having read… having been read,
[Future]: About to read… about to be read.
Participles are adjectives, it’s simple.

Gerunds are nouns that end in -ing;
Take the verbal base and add the ending:
“Read” becomes “reading“,
“Write” becomes “writing“,
“Be” becomes “being“,
Gerunds are nouns that end in -ing.

Infinitives are verbals, too;
Take the verbal base and add the particle “to”:
To read or not to read,
To be or not to be,
To see or not to see.
Infinitives are verbals, too.