Participles Checkpoint

Identify the participle PHRASE in the following sentence:

Iced in white, the cookies looked like snowmen.

• Iced in white

• the cookies

• Like Snowmen

Identify the participle in the following sentence:

The complaining man was introduced to the manager.

• man

• complaining

• introduced

Identify the participle in the following sentence:

The runner, panting, waved to the spectators in the arena.

• waved

• spectators

• panting

Identify the participle phrase in the following sentence:

Confused by the directions, the student failed to answer the question.

• the student failed

• Confused by the directions

• to answer the question

1. Who is described as "playing on the court"?

2. The boys playing on the basketball court are competitive.

• the boys

• competitive

• court

What is described as "winding through the mountains"?

Winding through the mountains, the long road is beautiful.

• long

• road

• beautiful

Identify the participle phrase in the following sentence:

The woman playing the piano is my grandma.

• playing the piano

• The woman

• is my grandma

Identify the participle in the following sentence:

Yawning, Kelly made her way to bed.

• bed

• Kelly

• Yawning

Identify the participle in the following sentence:

Emma regretted her broken promise.

• Emma

• broken

• promise

Identify the participle phrase in the following sentence:

Shaking hands warmly, the two candidates had made up their differences.

• Shaking hands warmly

• the two candidates

• made up their differences