participle lesson 478
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Participles
Sarah Lovinggood
March 7, 2013
English 478
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What is a participle?
Participles are forms of verbs!
Present-tense participles
Verb + -ing
giggling, shoveling, biting
Past-tense participles Verb + -ed (or other ending to show it happened in the past*)
giggled, shoveled, *bitten/bit
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What do participles do?
Participles can be used as verbs in long
verb phrases, but thats not what were
talking about today.
TODAY: Were talking about how
participles can modify nouns!
Thats right: using a verb form like an adjective!
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PICTURE THIS:
Picture this in your mind:
A nest of snakes curling around
some prey
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PICTURE THIS:
One writer might describe that image likethis:
Lets try a human tableau! Who can act thissentence out?
The diamondback water snake
attacked its prey.
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Lets add a few participles.
Add someingverbs that a snake would do:
Hissing
Slithering
Coiling
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Lets add a few participles
Now weve got:
Hissing, slithering, and coiling, the diamondback
water snake attacked its prey.
Human tableau part two! Who can act this
sentence out?
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Participial Phrases
You can also add participial phrases:
Participle + other modifiers = participialphrase
-ingverb + a nominal = participial phrase
Think about it this way: What is the snake
hissing? What is the snake coiling?
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Lets try out
Hissing its forked red tongue and coiling its cold
body, the diamondback water snake attacked
its prey.
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Lets try it with some pictures.
What is the subject of this picture? The man.
What is the man doing? [Participles!]
Modify this sentence: The man loses the match.
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Lets try it with some pictures.
Subject of the picture?
Participles?
Sentence:
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But please
Always put your
participle right
next to the noun
you are modifying.
Otherwise, you
are in danger ofhaving a dangling
participle.
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GROUP TIME!
DIRECTIONS:
1. Look at your picture. Brainstorm some
participles that you could use in yoursentence.
2. Write your sentence.
3. Prepare your human tableau!
4. Perform!
5. Applaud!
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Group One
Subject:
Participles:
Sentence:
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Group Two
Subject:
Participles:
Sentence:
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Group Three
Subject:
Participles:
Sentence:
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Group Four
Subject:
Participles:
Sentence:
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Group Five
Subject:
Participles:
Sentence:
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Group Six
Subject:
Participles:
Sentence:
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Group Seven
Subject:
Participles:
Sentence:
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