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Participial Phrases
Directions: 1) Write the following verbs into both their present and past participle forms.
verb
present participle
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past participle
1. soar
2. struggle
3. spoke
4. burn
5. fly
Directions: 1) Put parenthesis ( ) around the participial phrase in the sentence.
2) Draw an arrow from the participial phrase to the noun or pronoun that it modifies.
6. Looking for more variety, Americans often adopt the fashions of other countries.
7. The demand for goods imported from other lands is often great.
8. Decorated by hand, Chinese silk is an expensive luxury item.
9. A wool scarf woven in Ecuador is warm and colorful.
10. Brides prize lace veils made by French nuns.
Directions: 1) Write five sentences that contain participial phrases. Put the participial phrase in parenthesis ( ) and
draw an arrow to the word it modifies. (Make sure you are indeed creative participial phrases and not verbs or
gerunds.) If you are stuck, use the verbs that you conjugated into participles at the top of this worksheet.
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