Participles And Participle Phrases
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Questions and Answers
- 1.A participial phrase functions as the following part of speech in a sentence.
- A.
Noun
- B.
Verb
- C.
Adjective
- 2.Participial phrases in the present tense begin with words that end in
- A.
-ed
- B.
-ing
- 3.Participial phrases in the past tense begin with words that end in
- A.
-ed
- B.
-ing
- 4.Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence. Running through the water, the children of the city romped under the spray of the hydrant.
- A.
Running through the water
- B.
Through the water
- C.
Romped under the spray of the hydrant
- D.
Children of the city
- 5.Is the word running in the following sentence a participle? The worker washed his hands in the running water of the stream.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Is the word spinning in the following sentence a participle? Is the spider spinning a web in the barn?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Is the word digging in the following sentence a participle? A shovel definitely fits the category of a digging tool.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Read the following sentence. Identify the participial phrase. Poe, suffering great tragedy in his life, wrote disturbing stories.
- A.
Suffering great tragedy in his life
- B.
Wrote disturbing stories
- C.
Poe wrote disturbing stories
- D.
Disturbing stories
- 9.Read the following sentence. Poe, suffering great tragedy in his life, wrote disturbing stories. The participial phrase in this example is in the
- A.
Past tense
- B.
Present tense
- 10.Read the following sentence. Poe, suffering great tragedy in his life, wrote disturbing stories. The participial phrase in this example modifies which word?
- A.
Wrote
- B.
Stories
- C.
Disturbing
- D.
Poe
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