Facts about Participles

By: Corbin Pollock and Greg Martinez

What are Participles?

Workbook Definition: "A form of a verb that is often used as an adjective."

Dictionary.com Definition: "An adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; (Or in other words) a verbal form used as an adjective."

What are some examples of participles?

Workbook Examples: "Toasted, Running, Worried, Roaring, Written, Singing, Dented, Surprised, Falling, Lost, Listening, Harvested, and Baked."

http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/particterm.htm: Playing, drawing, gliding, twisting, turning, touching, anchored, thrown, trampled, devoured, broken, fractured, and complicated.

Participle Phrases

In a participle phrase you must have:

A participle

An object

And a prepositional phrase.

My mother waved a torch over her head making a great ring of white light.

Where do Participles originate from?

Dictionary.com: "Participles originate from the Middle English and Latin."

What is the suffix for participles?

owl.english.purdue.edu: "-ing (for present tense) and -ed. -en, -d, -t, -n, or -ne. (for past tense)"

What are some examples of participles used in sentences?

Workbook Examples: Listening, I heard some useful information.

The freshly baked bread smelled wonderful. Greg's Example: The man carrying the car fell off a cliff. Corbin's Example: The painted picture looked amazing.

Think you have learned about

participles?Let's find out!

Test Time!

Find the participle in each sentence. 1. The little girl giggled as the clown got hit on the

head. Answer: Giggled 2. Santa jumped as he did parkour on everyone's

roof. Answer: Jumped 3. I helped George look for a banana. Answer: Helped

Second Test Time!(Bet you didn't expect this!)

Use words from the word box and put them in sentences.

Word Box: Crying, Lost, Arrested, Burning, and Shaken.

1. The ______ baby had a very wet and stinky diaper.

2. ______, he walked away from the wrecked car.

3. The _______ log fell into the river and exploded.

4. The ______ old man fell into a river and got saved by a lumberjack.

5. The 5-year-old child got ______ for stealing a button.

Second Test Answers

1. The crying baby had a very wet and stinky diaper.

2. Shaken, he walked away from the wrecked car.

3. The burning log fell into the river and exploded.

4. The lost old man fell into a river and got saved by an lumberjack.

5. The 5-year-old child got arrested for stealing a button.

Cites Used!

Our L.A. Workbook

Dictionary.com

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/participle.htm (For help with the test questions)

http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/participles.htm (For finding new participles)

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/02/ (For second test)

http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/particterm.htm ( for participle phrases)

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