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    The document discusses participles and how they can be used to modify nouns. It provides examples of present and past participles formed from verbs. Participles ending in "-ing" can describe actions, and when used along with a noun can form a participial phrase. The document demonstrates adding participles to sample sentences and encourages coming up with participial phrases to describe pictures for a human tableau activity.

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    Participles

    Sarah Lovinggood March 7, 2013 English 478

    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

    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!

    PICTURE THIS:
    Picture this in your mind:

    A nest of snakes curling around some prey

    PICTURE THIS:
    One writer might describe that image like this:

    The diamondback water snake attacked its prey.


    Lets try a human tableau! Who can act this sentence out?

    Lets add a few participles.


    Add some ing verbs that a snake would do: Hissing Slithering Coiling

    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?

    Participial Phrases
    You can also add participial phrases: Participle + other modifiers = participial phrase -ing verb + a nominal = participial phrase Think about it this way: What is the snake hissing? What is the snake coiling?

    Lets try out


    Hissing its forked red tongue and coiling its cold body, the diamondback water snake attacked its prey.

    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.

    Lets try it with some pictures.

    Subject of the picture? Participles? Sentence:

    But please
    Always put your participle right next to the noun you are modifying. Otherwise, you are in danger of having a dangling participle.

    GROUP TIME!
    DIRECTIONS: 1. Look at your picture. Brainstorm some participles that you could use in your sentence. 2. Write your sentence. 3. Prepare your human tableau! 4. Perform! 5. Applaud!

    Group One
    Subject: Participles:

    Sentence:

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    Group Three
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