EK12 HS Participles and Participial Phrases

What is a participle?

• verb pretending to be a noun

• verb pretending to be an adjective

• noun pretending to be a noun

• adjective pretending to be a verb

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

What are the two ways a participle can end?

• -ly

• -ing

• -ed

• -ness

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Find the participle: The ship sailed within striking distance.

• sailed

• ship

• striking

• distance

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Find the participle: The children took off their snowy jackets and crowded by the warming fire.

• warming

• crowded

• took

• snowy

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Find the participle:Sally could not sleep with that blinking light from the television's power button.

• sleep

• blinking

• could

• power

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Find the participle: The man shielded his eyes from the blinding sun as he stepped out of the movie theater.

• Shielded

• stepped

• eyes

• blinding

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:

By the twelfth century, a program challenging to both mind and body had been developed.

• a program challenging

• challenging to both mind and body

• challenging

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:

Demonstrating his ability to hunt, fence, and ride, a fourteen-year-old became a squire.

• Demonstrating his ability to hunt

• Demonstrating his ability

• Demonstrating his ability to hunt, fence, and ride

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:

Swimming, another aquatic sport, demands physical endurance.

• Swimming, another aquatic sport

• Swimming

• There is no participial phrase.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A

Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:

Some kinds of exercise require planning and expense.

• require planning

• planning and expense

• There is no participial phrase.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.8.1A