1. Facts about Participles By: Corbin Pollock and Greg Martinez

2. What are Participles?  Workbook Definition: "A form of a verb that is often used as an adjective."  Dictionary.com Definition: "An adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; (Or in other words) a verbal form used as an adjective."

3. What are some examples of participles?  Workbook Examples: "Toasted, Running, Worried, Roaring, Written, Singing, Dented, Surprised, Falling, Lost, Listening, Harvested, and Baked."  http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/particterm.htm: Playing, drawing, gliding, twisting, turning, touching, anchored, thrown, trampled, devoured, broken, fractured, and complicated. http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/particterm.htm

4. Participle Phrases  In a participle phrase you must have:  A participle  An object  And a prepositional phrase.  My mother waved a torch over her head making a great ring of white light.

5. Where do Participles originate from?  Dictionary.com: "Participles originate from the Middle English and Latin."

6. What is the suffix for participles?  owl.english.purdue.edu: "-ing (for present tense) and -ed. -en, -d, -t, -n, or - ne. (for past tense)"

7. What are some examples of participles used in sentences?  Workbook Examples: Listening, I heard some useful information.  The freshly baked bread smelled wonderful.  Greg's Example: The man carrying the car fell off a cliff.  Corbin's Example: The painted picture looked amazing.

8. Think you have learned about participles? Let's find out!

9. Test Time!  Find the participle in each sentence.  1. The little girl giggled as the clown got hit on the head.  Answer: Giggled  2. Santa jumped as he did parkour on everyone's roof.  Answer: Jumped  3. I helped George look for a banana.  Answer: Helped

10. Second Test Time! (Bet you didn't expect this!)  Use words from the word box and put them in sentences.  Word Box: Crying, Lost, Arrested, Burning, and Shaken.  1. The ______ baby had a very wet and stinky diaper.  2. ______, he walked away from the wrecked car.  3. The _______ log fell into the river and exploded.  4. The ______ old man fell into a river and got saved by a lumberjack.  5. The 5-year-old child got ______ for stealing a button.

11. Second Test Answers  1. The crying baby had a very wet and stinky diaper.  2. Shaken, he walked away from the wrecked car.  3. The burning log fell into the river and exploded.  4. The lost old man fell into a river and got saved by an lumberjack.  5. The 5-year-old child got arrested for stealing a button.

12. Cites Used!  Our L.A. Workbook  Dictionary.com Dictionary.com  http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/participle.htm (For help with the test questions) http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/participle.htm  http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/participles.htm (For finding new participles) http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/participles.htm  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/02/ (For second test) https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/02/  http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/particterm.htm ( for participle phrases) http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/particterm.htm

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14. Are there any questions about Participles?  We would be happy to answer them. (If we can)