A participle is a verbal and is used as an adjective. Participles end in various ways. They modify nouns and pronouns and can precede or follow the word modified.
A
present participle always ends with ing as does the gerund, but remember
that it is an adjective. A past participle ends with ed, n, or irregularly.
Examples:
played, broken, brought, sung, seeing, having seen, being seen, seen, having
been seen
A participial phrase is made up of a participle and any complements
(direct objects, predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives, or modifiers) like
the gerund. A participial phrase that comes at the beginning of the
sentence is always followed by a comma and modifies the subject of the sentence.
Instructions: Find the participial phrases in these sentences and tell what word they
modify.
1. Taking my time, I hit the basket.
2. Shouting angrily, the man chased the thief.
3. Exhausted from the hike, Jim dropped to the ground.
4. Grinning sheepishly, the boy asked for a date.
5. Trying to open the gate, I tore my coat.
--For answers scroll
down.
Answers:
1. Taking my time, I hit the basket.
- Taking my time modifies the subject I
2. Shouting angrily, the man chased the thief.
- Shouting angrily modifies the subject man
3. Exhausted from the hike, Jim dropped to the ground.
- Exhausted from the hike modifies the subject Jim
4. Grinning sheepishly, the boy asked for a date.
- Grinning sheepishly modifies the subject boy
5. Trying to open the gate, I tore my coat.
- Trying to open the gate modifies the subject I
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