Participial Phrases

What is a participle?

• an adjective formed from a verb

• a noun formed from a verb

• an adverb formed from a verb

• a verb formed from a noun

Which one is an incorrect statement about participle forms?

• An active voice verb becomes an -ing participle.

• A passive voice verb becomes an -ed participle.

• There are also perfect forms.

• There are also continuous forms.

Which sentence does not have the participle in it?

• Some movies are rated X.

• Children should not see X-rated movies.

• The movie that I just saw was thrilling.

• I was thrilled when I saw how the movie was made.

Which one is not the way to make a reduced adjective clause?

You can reduce a subject pattern adjective clause as follows.

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2.

3.

4. .

• Delete the relative pronoun (who, which, or that).

• Change the verb to a participle.

• Change the punctuation (commas or no commas).

• Put the word not at the beginning of a participial phrase to make it negative.

Participial phrases, like adjective clauses, can be restrictive (necessary) or nonrestrictive (unnecessary). If the original clause is nonrestrictive, the phrase is ....

• nonrestrictive

• restrictive

Change this adjective clause into participial phrase:

The team members, who looked happy after their victory, were cheered by the fans.

• The team members, looking happy after their victory, were cheered by the fans.

• The team members, looked happy after their victory, were cheered by the fans.

• The team members, who werelooking happy after their victory, were cheered by the fas.

Rewrite the sentence, reducing the adjective clause to a participial phrase.

Soon, robots that work in assembly plants will be able to follow voice

commands.

Rewrite the sentence, reducing the adjective clause to a participial phrase.

The new approach suggests that smokers, who are often scorned for continuing to smoke despite health risks, are daring rebels.

In the field of medicine, it will soon be normal to find robots _________________________.

• performing surgeries.

• performed surgeries.

• who performing surgeries.

• who performed surgeries.

Children _________ have an advantage over monolingual children

• raised in bilingual families

• raising in bilingual families

• who raising in bilingual families

• who raised in bilingual families