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Grammar Notebook Worksheet for PARTICIPLES I. Copy the following into your NOTES for UNIT 3: PHRASES and CLAUSES: -A. A Participle is a form of a verb that can act as an ADJECTIVE. **VERB or PARTICIPLE????? --A verb shows an action, condition, or fact that something exists. --A participle acting as an adjective describes a noun or pronoun. ACTING AS VERB The dog is snarling at the plumber. ACTING AS PARTICIPLE The snarling dog attacked the plumber. B. A participle modified by an adverb or adverbial phrase or accompanied by a complement. The entire phrase acts as an ADJECTIVE. Traveling quickly, we completed the trip in two hours. Avoiding stops, we completed the trip in two hours. **The participial is always preceded or followed by a NOUN!!!!!! BECAUSE it is an ADJECTIVE…. And ADJECTIVES DESCRIBE NOUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! C. PAINTING WITH PARTICIPLES: --Sentence with no participles: The toddler cried on the kitchen floor. --Sentence with two ing participles: Kicking and screaming, the toddler cried on the kitchen floor. --Sentence with two ing participial phrases: Kicking the white tiles, screaming for a cookie, the toddler cried on the kitchen floor. D. WHERE DO PARTICIPLES GO? • Participles can begin a sentence: Chasing a tennis ball, the Golden Retriever barreled across the backyard. • Participles can interrupt a sentence: The Golden Retriever, chasing a tennis ball, barreled across the backyard. • Participles can end a sentence: The Golden Retriever barreled across the backyard, chasing a tennis ball. E. PUNCTUATING PARTICIPLES Participial phrases are always set off by punctuation, usually commas: • The weatherman, pointing anxiously at a colorful radar map, predicted flash floods. EXERCISES: Please do these as APPLICATIONS. You should demonstrate some interaction with the exercises when you are finished. *APPLICATION 1—Copy the sentences into your notebook. Then, underline the participle/Participle phrases in each. • • Pedaling rapidly down the path, Jonas felt oddly proud to have joined those who took the pills. —Lois Lowry, The Giver Then, propping the hatchet in a crack in the rock wall, he had pulled the head of his spear against it, carving a thin piece off each time, until the thick end tapered down to a needle point. —Gary Paulsen, Hatchet *APPLICATION 2-- Create a sentence. Write the sentence, punctuating correctly, and underline and label the participial phrases. • • • • • • in the rear sat dressed not in his usual two-piece suit feeling ridiculous Artemis but in normal teenager clothing *APPLICATION 3-- Write a sentence like the one below, but about a different subject. Imitate the structure of the model sentence. For example, this sentence begins with an article. Your sentence should begin with an article. The second word is an adjective. So, your second word should be an adjective…Underline and label the participial phrases. • The little bag was made of faded green material, gathered at the top with a black string. —Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember *APPLICATION 4-- Combine the sentences below to make one sentence with a participial phrase. Underline and label the participial phrase. • Argon heaved a massive sigh. + Argon rested his hands on both knees. *APPLICATION 5-- Write the sentence below, filling in the blanks with participial phrases. Underline and label each participial phrase. ________________, the river was a brute force, _____________________________________. —Christopher Paolini, Eragon WRITING 3 (To go in your writing section for this UNIT.): *In response to the following picture prompts, write at least 5 sentences (for each picture) with participial phrases. Underline and label each participial phrase. Picture 1: Picture 2: Picture 3: Assignment: Now, complete the worksheet by following the directions. This will go in your grammar journal with the other notes and applications and is DUE FRIDAY!!!