Chapter 10 is on verbals, shortened forms of clauses. All verbals look like verbs, but can be separated into three categories: infinitives, gerunds, and participles. Infinitives can be utilized as nouns, adverbs, or adjectives, gerunds are always utilized as nouns, and participles are always utilized as adjectives. To distinguish verbs from verbals, one must remember that verbs are finite and verbals are nonfinite. This means that verbs can be inflected according to person and number and can make an assertion, while verbals cannot. I will have to remember that infinitives always take the form of “to followed by a verb,” and that infinitives can be potentially mixed up with prepositional phrases. I will have to refresh myself on noun clauses to fully understand the diagramming of infinitives as nouns. However, it seems straight-forward enough judging from the examples Vitto provides. I will have to look at the “Infinitives as adverbs” section in more detail, to make sure that I don’t mix up infinitives used as adverbs that modify a verb with those that modify an adjective. One thing that might confuse me about this chapter is the different ways in which infinitives used as different parts of speech can be diagrammed. I plan to study the differences and ways of differentiating the different infinitives, to make sure this does not become a problem. I will have to remember the tests for each use of the infinitive, including complementary infinitives.