Participles

The scouts roasting marshmallows around the fire told ghost stories to pass the time.

• roasting marshmallows

• roasting marshmallows around the fire

• told ghost stories to pass the time

• to pass the time

Identify the participial phrase.

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

• Sweeping across the night sky, the bats

• Sweeping across the night sky

• the bats hunted

• hunted their prey.

The marshmallow burnt beyond recognition tasted awful.

• The marshmallow burnt

• burnt beyond recognition

• beyond recognition

• tasted awful

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

Which of word is a participle?

The window, broken during the storm, let the icy winds into the cabin

• window

• broken

• during

• let

Which word is a participle?

• rushed

• the man

• rushed

• burnt

Which word is a participle?

Boiling storm clouds threatened to wash out the picnic.

• boiling

• threatened

• wash

• out

Identify the participle(s).
The drowning boy struggled to keep his head above the water.

• drowning

• struggled

• drowning, struggled

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

• The

• sobbing

• child

• held