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Identifying Participial Phrases.
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Identify the participial phrase: Fond of brushing her hair, Sally always had smooth and silky locks.
a) Fond of brushing her hair
b) Sally always had
c) smooth and silky locks
d) always had
Identify the participial phrase: The trash can sat in the corner, brimming with garbage.
a) brimming with garbage.
b) The trash can sat
c) sat in the corner
d) in the corner
Identify the participial phrase: The woman, smiling and waving, said hello.
a) The woman
b) smiling and waving,
c) said hello
d) The woman, smiling
Identify the participial phrase: Framed and hung, the painting lit up the room.
a) the painting
b) lit up the room.
c) Framed and hung,
d) the painting lit
Identify the participial phrase: Blinking in the dark, the phone was almost out of battery power
a) the phone was almost out
b) Blinking in the dark,
c) out of battery power
d) the phone was almost out of battery power
Identify the participial phrase: Quickly opening the bag, Carrie found her favorite notebook.
a) Quickly opening the bag,
b) Carrie found her favorite notebook.
c) Carrie found
d) her favorite notebook.
Identify the participial phrase: Pouring a glass of milk, Amanda concentrated.
a) Pouring a glass of milk
b) Amanda concentrated
c) a glass of milk
d) of milk
Identify the participial phrase: Turning the light on, Haley walked into the room.
a) Haley walked
b) Turning the light on
c) walked into the room
d) into the room
A participial phrase looks like this but is not this --
a) verb
b) noun
c) spaceship
d) cat
A participial phrase really functions as this --
a) adjective
b) verb
c) adverb
d) prepositional phrase
What punctuation is used to set a participial phrase off from the main clause of a sentence?
a) comma
b) period
c) question mark
d) dash
Identify the participial phrase: Brewing a lovely pot of tea, Grace also decided to indulge in two butter cookies.
a) Brewing a lovely pot of tea
b) Grace also decided
c) decided to indulge
d) decided to indulge in two butter cookies
Identify the participial phrase: Rocky Balboa, beaten within an inch of his life, stood up and kept fighting.
a) beaten within an inch of his life
b) Rocky Balboa, beaten within an inch of his life
c) stood up and kept fighting.
d) stood up
Identify the participial phrase: Somersaulting through the leaves, the baby panda bear exhibited pure bliss.
a) the baby panda bear exhibited
b) Somersaulting through the leaves,
c) exhibited pure bliss.
d) the baby panda bear exhibited
Identify the participial phrase: Robin wants to buy a bookshelf made of iron.
a) Robin wants
b) to buy a bookshelf
c) wants to buy
d) made of iron
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