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.
In many other languages the infinitive is a single word, often with a characteristic inflective ending, like morir ((to) die) in Spanish, manger ((to) eat) in French, portare ((to) carry) in Latin, lieben ((to) love) in German, etc. However some languages have no forms which can be considered to be infinitives.