Participles/Participial Phrases

Participles/Participial Phrases

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What is a participle?

• a verb acting as a noun

• a verb acting as an adjective

• a noun acting as a adjective

• an adjective acting as a verb

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What ways can a participle end?

• -ing

• -t

• -d

• -n

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Find the participle: The ship sailed within striking distance.

• sailed

• ship

• striking

• distance

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Find the participle: The children took off their snowy jackets and crowded by the warming fire.

• warming

• crowded

• took

• snowy

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Find the participle: Sally could not sleep with that blinking light from the television's power button.

• sleep

• blinking

• could

• power

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Find the participle: The man shielded his eyes from the blinding sun as he stepped out of the movie theater.

• Shielded

• stepped

• eyes

• blinding

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Find the participle(s): The boiling clouds poured down rain on the seething sea.

Select all that apply.

• boiling

• seething

• poured

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Find the participle: The startled cat jumped high into the air.

• cat

• air

• jumped

• startled

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Find the participial phrase: Yawning widely, the student struggled to stay awake in class.

• in class

• the student struggled

• yawning widely

• to stay awake

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Find the participial phrase: Opening the book to the last page, Sally read the ending first.

• the last page

• Sally read the ending

• ending first

• opening the book to the last page

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Find the participial phrase: The girl wearing the blue shirt ran down the hallway.

• ran down the hallway

• wearing the blue shirt

• down the hallway

• the girl wearing

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Find the participial phrase: The children playing in the park belong to the school next door.

• playing in the park

• school next door

• belong to the school next door

• in the park

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Find the participial phrase: Glistening in the hot sun, Jenny sipped her refreshing soda.

• Glistening in the hot sun

• hot sun

• Jenny sipped her refreshing soda

• refreshing soda