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Name Date Daughter of Invention (page 678) Grammar SkillBuilder: Participial Phrases Key Concept: Writers use participial phrases to add details and to vary their sentences. Because participial phrases are verb forms, they give a sense of action to writing. Participial Phrases A participle is a verb form used as an adjective to modify a noun or pronoun. A participial phrase consists of a participle and its modifiers. Participles have two forms: the present participle (working) and the past participle (worked). The past participle can be used with auxiliary verbs (having worked). The sentence below includes both past and present participles. The first participial phrase modifies newspaper; the second and third modify glasses. “On his side of the bed my father would be conked out for an hour already, his Spanish newspaper draped over his chest, his glasses propped up on his bedside table, looking out eerily at the darkened room like a disembodied guard.” Activity Combine each pair of sentences, changing one of them into a participial phrase. Underline the participial phrase. Example: Julia Alvarez relates stories of her old life in the Dominican Republic. She has won awards for her writing. Rewritten: Award-winning writer Julia Alvarez relates stories of her old life in the Dominican Republic. 1. My sisters and I battled with our parents. We were trying to become Americans. 2. Other students threatened us. My sisters and I decided we didn’t want to go to school. Copyright © McDougal Littell Inc. 3. My mother sat on her side of the bed. She would make detailed drawings of her latest invention. 4. As my mother burst into my room, I cried out. I had lost the delicate strand of thought I was putting on paper. 5. I was annoyed by the interruption. I tried, nevertheless, to guess at her new invention. 6. Mami saw something unbelievable in the paper. She let out a yelp. 7. My father was startled awake by her cry. He thought immediately that they were not safe. 8. My mother pointed to the newspaper. She focused our attention on the suitcase with wheels. 9. Sister Mary Joseph asked me to deliver the teacher’s day address at school. She thought she was doing me a favor. 10. Whitman’s poems inspired me. I wrote the speech that enraged my father. UNIT FOUR ALL IN THE FAMILY 43