PRESENT PARTICIPLES

Identify the participle in the sentence:

The flying insect was a nuisance.

• Insect

• Flying

• Nuisance

• No participle

Identify the participle in the sentence:

The water, gushing through the ravine, was very dangerous.

• No participle

• Very

• Dangerous

• Gushing

Identify the participial phrase.
Preparing for the weather, Meg grabbed her raincoat and rain boots.

• Preparing for the weather
• grabbed her raincoat
• grabbed her raincoat and rain boots

Identify the participle(s).
Enjoying her victory, Monica jumped around wildly and threw her arms up in celebration.

• Enjoying
• Enjoying, jumped
• Enjoying, threw
• Enjoying, jumped, threw

He was sitting in an armchair ____________ a magazine.

• read

• reading

• having read

• to read

_________________from Brazil, he is not used to such cold weather.

• Having come

• Coming

• Having came

• Came

Identify the participle(s).
My mom cringes each time she hears the crashing cymbals and pounding drums coming from my bedroom.

• crashing
• pounding
• crashing, pounding

Identify the participle(s).
The drowning boy struggled to keep his head above the water.

• drowning
• struggled
• drowning, struggled

These are words that look like action words, but do not actually function as such.

• Verbs

• Gerunds

• Verbals

• Nouns

These are verbals that serve as subjects or objects in a sentence.

• Gerunds

• Present Participle

• Progressive Tenses

• Verbs