Participles and Participial Phrases
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  • Question 1
    30 seconds
    Q. What is the participle in the following sentence?
    Shivering, the couple ran out of the rain and into the house.
    answer choices
    shivering
    couple
    into
    house
  • Question 2
    30 seconds
    Q. What is the participle in the following sentence?
    The sobbing child held his injured knee.
    answer choices
    The
    sobbing
    child
    held
  • Question 3
    30 seconds
    Q. What is the participle in the following sentence?
    The cascading waterfall poured down over the rocks.
    answer choices
    waterfall
    rocks
    over
    cascading
  • Question 4
    30 seconds
    Q. What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
    Sweeping across the night sky, the bats hunted their prey.
    answer choices
    Sweeping across the night sky,
    the bats hunted 
    their prey.
  • Question 5
    30 seconds
    Q. What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
    The water drained slowly in the pipe clogged with dog hair.
    answer choices
    The water drained slowly
    slowly in the pipe clogged
    clogged with dog hair.
  • Question 6
    30 seconds
    Q. What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
    The horse trotting up to the fence hopes that you have an apple or carrot.
    answer choices
    The horse trotting up to the fence
    trotting up to the fence
    hopes that you have an apple
    or carrot.
  • Question 7
    30 seconds
    Q. What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
    The lake, frozen over all winter, was finally thawing.
    answer choices
    The lake, frozen
    was finally
    frozen over all winter
    thawing.
  • Question 8
    30 seconds
    Q. What noun is the participial phrase modifying?
    Searching the glove compartment, Evangeline looked for her sunglasses.
    answer choices
    sunglasses
    looked
    compartment
    Evangeline
  • Question 9
    30 seconds
    Q. What noun is the participial phrase modifying?
    Quickly checking over his answers, Patrick handed in his test just before time ran out.
    answer choices
    Patrick
    answers
    test
    ran
  • Question 10
    30 seconds
    Q. What noun is the participial phrase modifying?
    Sweeping across the night sky, the bats hunted their prey.
    answer choices
    night
    sky
    bats
    prey
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