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1. Find the participial phrase:Food frozen for over five years tastes icky.
2. Which word in the following sentence is the participle:Some ducks sat on a floating log in the river.
3. As we were walking in the woods, we food a house _____ by huge tree roots.
4. Choose each type of pollution with its relevant words/ phrases3. lakes, rivers, oceans, groundwater, contamination
5. Identify the participle of the following sentence:Children interested in music early develop strong intellectual skills.
6. Identify the participle or participle phrase in the following sentence:Laughing at her own joke, Mrs. Newell ended her class.
7. Exercise 1:Identifying ParticiplesIdentify the Participle or Participial Phrase in the sentence. 5. The soccer players, having grown faint from thirst, gratefully accepted the cold oranges.
8. Select the correctly punctuated participial phrase from the drop-down menu to add it to the sentence. Cortney _____ found dozens of interesting seashells.
9. Who is pitching today?
10. Identify the participle(s).Marsha smiled sadly at the wilting flower.
11. He felt very lonely listening to the sounds of nature.
12. Participles are words that are formed from verbs but act as
13. Present participles are removable. Gerunds (-ing noun phrases) are not. Which sentence shows a removable present participle?
14. The baby's teeth did not look very shiny. They were a bit yellowish.
15. Write a sentence using a participial phrase as an adjective to describe a house.
16. What noun is the participial phrase modifying?Hiding under the blanket, the cat meowed during the storm.
17. Pitching is our weakness.
18. Present participles _____
19. What is the participial phrase?The tourists admired the painting hanging in the museum.
20. Identify the present participial phrase:Removing his coat, Jack rushed to the river.
21. What is the most common mistake with introductory participial phrases?
22. Who are you talking about?
23. Identify the participial phrase. The exhausted runner gasping for breath crossed the finish line in record time.
24. The ski run covered with the most new powder attracted huge crowds of skiers.
25. What should be done if too much distance separates an introductory participial phrase and its target?
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