Verbals: Participles

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

What are the two ways a participle can end?

• -ly

• -ing

• -ed

• -ness

Find the participle: The ship sailed within striking distance.

• sailed

• ship

• striking

• distance

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

• warming

• crowded

• took

• snowy

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

• sleep

• blinking

• could

• power

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

• Shielded

• stepped

• eyes

• blinding

Find the participle: The boiling clouds poured down rain on the seething sea.

• boiling

• seething

• poured

Find the participle: The startled cat jumped high into the air.

• cat

• air

• jumped

• startled

Find the participial phrase: Yawning widely, the student struggled to stay awake in class.

• in class

• the student struggled

• yawning widely

• to stay awake

Find the participial phrase: Opening the book to the last page, Sally read the ending first.

• the last page

• Sally read the ending

• ending first

• opening the book to the last page