Participles and Participial Phrases Review

Find the participle: The ship sailed within striking distance.

• sailed

• ship

• striking

• distance

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

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

• warming

• crowded

• took

• snowy

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

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

• Shielded

• stepped

• eyes

• blinding

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

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

• in class

• the student struggled

• yawning widely

• to stay awake

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

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

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

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

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
The water drained slowly in the pipe clogged with dog hair.

• The water drained slowly
• slowly in the pipe clogged
• clogged with dog hair.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
The horse trotting up to the fence hopes that you have an apple or carrot.

• The horse trotting up to the fence
• trotting up to the fence
• hopes that you have an apple
• or carrot.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
The lake, frozen over all winter, was finally thawing.

• The lake, frozen
• was finally
• frozen over all winter
• thawing.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

What noun is the participial phrase modifying?
Searching the glove compartment, Evangeline looked for her sunglasses.

• sunglasses
• looked
• compartment
• Evangeline

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A