Participial Phrases
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English
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9th Grade
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Brooke Clark
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Notice that the phrase in red is an accessory to the otherwise complete sentence: Professor Kazan was the first ashore.
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Ex: The author, WRITING from the position of an expert, chose to end with solutions rather than more questions.
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Multiple Choice
What are participials?
Nouns being used as adjectives
Verbs being used as adjectives
Adjectives being used as nouns
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Multiple Choice
What should you look for when it comes to identifying a participial phrase?
Verb at the beginning of the phrase
Noun at the beginning of the phrase
Adjective at the beginning of the phrase
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Participials are verbs being used as adjectives
Participial phrases begin with participials (or verbs!)
They can be anywhere in a sentence: beginning, middle, or end
They describe a noun in the sentence
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Multiple Choice
Which part of the sentence includes a participial phrase: Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves.
Minute fungi
overspread the whole exterior
hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves.
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Notice that participial phrase, much like the appositive phrase, should be set off from the sentence at large using commas!
Example: Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves.
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Multiple Choice
Which part of the sentence includes a participial phrase: Whistling, he let the escalator waft him into the still night air.
Whistling
he let the escalator
waft him into the still night air
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Multiple Choice
What is the participial phrase: Diving near a reef, the marine biologist saw a shark.
Diving near a reef
the marine biologist
saw a shark
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Multiple Choice
What is the participial phrase: My father, cautioning me not to work a horse till he had fed fully, said I had plenty of time to eat myself.
My father
cautioning me not to work a horse till he had fed fully
said I had plenty of time to eat myself.
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Multiple Choice
What is the best way to punctuate this sentence with a participial phrase: Waiting for her ride to school Marie saw a deer leap into the woods
Waiting for her ride to school, Marie saw a deer leap into the woods.
Waiting for her ride to school. Marie saw a deer leap into the woods.
Waiting for her ride to school Marie saw a deer leap into the woods.
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Multiple Choice
What is the best way to punctuate this sentence with a participial phrase: Eaten by mosquitoes we wished that we had made hotel reservations.
Eaten by mosquitoes. we wished that we had made hotel reservations.
Eaten by mosquitoes, we wished that we had made hotel reservations.
Eaten by mosquitoes we wished that we had made hotel reservations.
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The compass was shattered into tiny pieces. The compass was useless.
vs
Shattering into tiny pieces, the compass was useless.
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Open Ended
Sentence combining using participial phrases! (Just make sure you apply your comma(s)!
Combine the following sentences using a participial phrase: The metaphor highlights the main idea. This metaphor is important.
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