Participles as Verbs and Adjectives

What is the participle in the following sentence: Enjoying her victory, Monica jumped around wildly and threw her arms up in celebration.

• Jumped

• Enjoying

• Wildly

• Threw

What is the participle in the following sentence: Braking too late, Judy hit the car in front of her.

• Judy

• Hit

• Car

• Braking

What is the participle in the following sentence: William almost stepped on the snake hidden in the clump of monkey grass.

• Hidden

• Stepped

• Clump

• Monkey

What is the participle in the following sentence: Marsha smiled sadly at the wilting flower.

• Flower

• Sadly

• Smiled

• Wilting

Identify the participle in the sentence:

The annoyed teacher fussed at the students.

• Annoyed

• Fussed

• Students

• No participle

Identify the participle in the sentence:

The water, gushing through the ravine, was very dangerous.

• Gushing

• Very

• Dangerous

• No participle

Participles act like _____________________.

• Adjectives

• Nouns

• Verbs

• Adverbs

What are the two types of participles?

• Present and past

• Past and progressive

• Present and progressive

• There is only one type of participle.

Present participles always end in ___________________.

• -ing

• -ed

• -en

• -s

What is the participle in the following sentence: The barking dog kept the neighbors awake all night.

• A) Barking

• B) Kept

• C) Neighbors

• D) Awake