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Skydiving is not for everyone, but I would like to try it at least once. Explain the type and purpose of the underlined verbal in the sentence above.

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Skydiving is a gerund and it acts as a subject in this sentence.

Typically, if the verbal ends in -ing, it is a gerund.

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Verbal are verb forms that do not act as verbs in a sentence but as nouns, adjectives or adverbs. There are three types: participial (It acts as an adjective), gerund (It acts as a noun), and infinitive (It acts as a noun, adjectives, or and adverbs).

In the sentence, "Skydiving" is a verbal gerund because it has a gerund (a verb root + "ing") and its purpose in the sentence is to act as a noun, as it refers to the sport or activity of jumping from an aircraft and performing acrobatic maneuvers in the air under free fall before landing by parachute.

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