Past and Present Participles

What tense is the verb phrase in this sentence?

Mr. Black has instructed his music class for three years.

• Present

• Past

• Present Participle

• Past Participle

___________________ in the company for many years, he knew everyone and everything.

• Having worked

• Worked

• Working

• To work

Participles act like _____________________.

• Adjectives

• Nouns

• Verbs

• Adverbs

To form the past participle drop the ending and add: ________ or ________.

• -ado, -ido

• -do, -da

• -ando, -iendo

• -ía, -ían

Present participles always end in ___________________.

• -ing

• -ed

• -en

• -s

What are the two types of participles?

• Present and progressive

• Past and progressive

• Present and past

• There is only one type of participle.

Past participles end in ______________________________.

• A variety of past tense endings

• -ing

• -s

• -es

Identify the participle in the sentence:

The annoyed teacher fussed at the students.

• Students

• Fussed

• Annoyed

• No participle

Mr. Ackerman built a new house.

• infinitive
• Past
• Past Part
• Present Part

Identify the participial phrase.
Preparing for the weather, Meg grabbed her raincoat and rain boots.

• Preparing for the weather
• grabbed her raincoat
• grabbed her raincoat and rain boots