Participle and Participle Phrases

What is the participle in the following sentence?
Shivering, the couple ran out of the rain and into the house.

• shivering
• couple
• into
• house

What is the participle in the following sentence?
The sobbing child held his injured knee.

• The
• sobbing
• child
• held

What is the participle in the following sentence?
The cascading waterfall poured down over the rocks.

• waterfall
• rocks
• over
• cascading

What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
Sweeping across the night sky, the bats hunted their prey.

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

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 horse trotting up to the fence hopes that you have an apple or carrot.

• The horse trotting up to the fence
• trotting up to the fence
• hopes that you have an apple
• or carrot.

What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
The lake, frozen over all winter, was finally thawing.

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

What noun is the participial phrase modifying?
Searching the glove compartment, Evangeline looked for her sunglasses.

• sunglasses
• looked
• compartment
• Evangeline

What noun is the participial phrase modifying?
Quickly checking over his answers, Patrick handed in his test just before time ran out.

• Patrick
• answers
• test
• ran

What noun is the participial phrase modifying?
Sweeping across the night sky, the bats hunted their prey.

• night
• sky
• bats
• prey