U4: Conventions

What is a participle?

• A verb pretending to be a noun

• A noun pretending to be a noun

• An adjective pretending to be a verb

• A verb pretending to be an adjective

What is the participle in the following sentence?

Shivering, the couple ran out of the rain and into the house.

• into

• house

• shivering

• couple

What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?

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

• the bats hunted

• their prey

• sweeping across the night sky

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

What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?

The lake, frozen over all winter, was finally thawing.

• thawing

• was finally

• The lake, frozen

• frozen over all winter

What noun is the participial phrase modifying?

Searching the glove compartment, Evangeline looked for her sunglasses.

• compartment

• Evangeline

• looked

• sunglasses

What noun is the participial phrase modifying?

Quickly checking over his answers, Patrick handed in his test just before time ran out.

• ran

• Patrick

• test

• answers

What noun is the participial phrase modifying?

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

• prey

• sky

• bats

• night

Identify the case of the underlined word.

Celeste offered me a chair.

• subjective

• objective

• possessive

Identify the case of the underlined word.

I grabbed my purse, and my Mom grabbed hers.

• subjective

• objective

• possessive