Participial Practice

What is the participle in the sentence:

"In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh"

• In

• In the kitchen

• gave

• hissing

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the participle:

"And the rain tapped on the empty house, echoing"

• rain

• tapped

• empty

• echoing

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify all of the participial phrases in the sentence:

"They thudded against chairs, whirling their mustached runners, kneading the rug nap, sucking gently at hidden dust.

• thudded against chairs

• whirling their mustached runners

• kneading the rug nap

• sucking gently at hidden dust

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the participial phrase, or select none.

"The garden sprinklers whirled up in golden founts, filling the soft morning air with scatterings of brightness.

• whirled up

• filing the soft morning air

• with scatterings of brightness

• None

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the participial phrase or select None.

The five spots of paint - the man, the woman, the children, the ball - remained.

• of paint

• the man, the woman, the children, the ball

• remained

• None

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify all of the participial phrases in the sentence:

The dog, once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores, moved in and through the house, tracking mud.

• once huge and fleshy

• gone to bone

• covered with sores

• tracking mud

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the participial phrase or select None:

"Delicately sensing decay at last, the regiments of mice hummed out as softly as blown gray leaves in an electrical wind."

• sensing decay at last

• hummed out as softly as blown gray leaves

• in an electrical wind

• None

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the participial phrase or select None:

"Robins will wear their feathery fire, whistling their whims on a low fence-wire"

• feathery fire

• whistling their whims

• on a low fence-wire

• None

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify all of the participial phrases in the sentence.

"It fed on Picassos and Matisses in the upper halls, like delicacies, baking off the oily flesh, tenderly crisping the cavasses into black shavings.

• in the upper halls

• like delicacies

• baking off the oily flesh

• tenderly crisping the canvasses

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A