Verbal Participial

Language Conventions:
Participles

Verbals

What are verbs?


What are verbals?

Verbs are action words.




Verbals are verbs that act as another part of speech, such as adjectives, adverbs or nouns.

To help create vivid descriptions.

Why?

A verb that is used as an adjective (describing word) to modify a noun (person, place, or thing)

Participles

Participles - a Type of Verbals

Ends in -d, -ed, -en.

The disgraced regime came to an end.

Past Tense

Ends in -ing.

The deafening cheers shook the stadium.

Present Tense

Participle Rules

Haitians, smiling, celebrated in New York.

After a Noun or Pronoun

The fallen dictator flees the country.

Before a Noun or Pronoun

Participle Placement

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Identify each participle and the noun it modifies: "The view from beneath the bridge is somewhat different: reluctant refugees with an aching love for their forsaken homeland."

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Identify the participle and the noun that it modifies: "Despite the searing example of my elders, I am not even sure what it means to love a country."

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Identify the participle and the noun that it modifies: "The Haitian sun has made the cross-Atlantic journey to shine on her dispossessed children."

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Identify the participle and the noun that it modifies: "It meets a response, 'I-TA-LIA', twice as loud but destined to be replaced by an even louder 'HA-I-TI', followed by 'I-TA-LIA' and again 'HA-I-TI' in a spiraling crescendo."

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Identify the participle and the noun that it modifies: "At the same time, the unheralded Haitian defenders have held."