Preposition and Participle Phrases

True or False?
If a word ends in -ed or -ing, it must be a verb.

• True
• False

Is the highlighted word/phrase a VERB or a PARTICIPLE?

Jill and Terry were tired from working out in the yard.

• verb/verb phrase

• participle/participle phrase

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 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 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 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

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

• sleep

• blinking

• could

• power

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