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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