Participial Phrases and Their Functions

Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:

By the twelfth century, a program challenging to both mind and body had been developed.

• a program challenging

• challenging to both mind and body

• challenging

Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:

Demonstrating his ability to hunt, fence, and ride, a fourteen-year-old became a squire.

• Demonstrating his ability to hunt

• Demonstrating his ability

• Demonstrating his ability to hunt, fence, and ride

Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:

Swimming, another aquatic sport, demands physical endurance.

• Swimming, another aquatic sport

• Swimming

• There is no participial phrase.

Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:

Some kinds of exercise require planning and expense.

• require planning

• planning and expense

• There is no participial phrase.

Identify the participle in the following sentence:

Fifteen men, clothed in military uniforms, presented the flags.

• clothed in military uniforms

• clothed

• presented

Identify the participle in the following sentence:

Given all the facts, we reached our decision quickly

• Given

• Given all the facts

• There is no participle.

Identify the type of participle in the following sentence:

Chopping the carrots quickly, the chef finished the stew

• present participle

• past participle

• both

• There is no participle.

Identify the participle (that functions as adjective) in the following sentence:

Uprooted trees had fallen on the playground.

• fallen

• had fallen

• uprooted

• uprooted trees

Identify the participle or participial phrase in the following sentence:

It was the worst hurricane in recorded history to reach our town.

• recorded history

• recorded

• in recorded history

Identify the participle or participial phrase in the following sentence:

Smiling, the winner accepted the trophy.

• smiling the winner

• smiling

• accepted

• accepted the trophy