1 Freshwater makes up less than 3% of water on earth, and over two-thirds of this is tied up in polar ice caps and glaciers. Freshwater lakes and rivers make up only 0.009% of water on Earth and groundwater makes up 0.28%.  Water is essential for all life forms.
User: Select the verbal; indicate whether it is a participle, gerund, or infinitive; and indicate how it functions in the sentence. Sprinting, the gazelle outran the three lionesses. Weegy: Sprinting, the gazelle outran the three lionesses. Verbal: sprinting.
General: An infinitive is, strictly speaking, an abstract verbal noun. The infinitive is used in Latin, as in English, as a noun: Errare humanum est = To err is. human. When so used, the Latin infinitive is an indeclinable neuter noun. The infinitive is also used in Latin, as in English, to complete the meaning of another. verb (complementary infinitive): Possum videre = I am able to see. Unlike English, Latin rarely uses an infinitive to indicate purpose. The infinitive is most widely used in Latin in Indirect Speech (Oratio Obliqua), which combines an accusative subject with an infinitive in subordinate clauses after a verbs of saying, thinking, and perceiving.