Participles

... the chocolate egg was very tempting, but I resisted because it is my brother's.

• Eat

• Eaten

• Eating

• Having eaten

Sunday was a very ...... day.

• relax

• relaxed

• relaxing

• having relaxed

I heard them........ in the next room

• having quarreled

• quarrel

• quarreling

• quarreled

They were .... by the noise coming from their neighbours' house.

• annoy

• annoyed

• annoying

• being annoying

Participles are a type of verbal that function as a/an ________________ in the sentence.

• Adverb

• Noun

• Verb

• Adjective

Identify the participle in the sentence: Mary wrote a letter to the frozen Santa who was sitting out in the cold.

• Sitting

• Frozen

• Letter

Identify the participle in the sentence: Laughing, she stepped up to the podium to begin her speech.

• Stepped

• Begin

• Laughing

Is the underlined participle past or present?

Jake looked up at his flying kite.

• Past

• Present

Is the underlined participle past or present, and why?

• Past, it ends in -ing

• Present, it ends in -ing

• Past, it functions as a noun

• Present, it functions as a verb

Identify the participle in the sentence and tell what word it is modifying.

• Frozen is the participle modifying the word lake

• Kicked is the participle modifying the word ball

• Frozen is the participle modifying the word ball

• Kicked is the participle modifying the word James