8th Grade Phrase Revi

What is the participle in the following sentence?
Shivering, the couple ran out of the rain and into the house.

• shivering
• couple
• into
• house

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C

What is the participle in the following sentence?
The sobbing child held his injured knee.

• The
• sobbing
• child
• held

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C

What is the participle in the following sentence?
The cascading waterfall poured down over the rocks.

• waterfall
• rocks
• over
• cascading

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C

What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
Sweeping across the night sky, the bats hunted their prey.

• Sweeping across the night sky,
• the bats hunted 
• their prey.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C

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.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C

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.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C

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.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C

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

• sunglasses
• looked
• compartment
• Evangeline

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C

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

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C

What noun is the participial phrase modifying?
Sweeping across the night sky, the bats hunted their prey.

• night
• sky
• bats
• prey

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

CCSS.L.1.4C