Participial and Prepositional Phrases

What noun is the participial phrase modifying?
Quickly checking over his answers, Patrick handed in his test just before time ran out.

• Patrick

• answers

• test

• ran

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.

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

• in class

• the student struggled

• yawning widely

• to stay awake

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

Which one of the underlined words in the following sentence is a participle?

A part of the broken bat nearly hit the runner on third base.

• part

• broken

• hit

• third

Which of the following is a participial phrase?

• Having finished the assignment

• Before the sunset

• In the morning

• The quick brown fox

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DOK Level 1: Recall

Choose the sentence that uses a participial phrase correctly:

• The crying baby had a wet diaper.

• She was walking, carrying her shoes.

• Finished at last, he sat down.

• All of the above

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DOK Level 1: Recall

Which type of phrase is underlined in this sentence? "Running quickly, the athlete broke the record."

• Noun phrase

• Adjective phrase

• Adverb phrase

• Participial phrase

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DOK Level 1: Recall

A participle is a verb that functions as ...

• Noun

• Adjective

• Adverb

• Verbal

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