Participles
What is a participle?
A verb form acting as an adjective
What is the participle in this sentence:
I made my ceramic pot on a spinning wheel.
What is a gerund?
A verb form that acts as a noun
Singing songs in the shower is one of my favorite activities.
Subject
Who is Edgar Allan Poe
A poet
What is a verbal?
Verbs that function as other parts of speech in a sentence.
What is a dangling participle?
A participle phrase that does not modify anything in the sentence
What can a gerund function as in a sentence?
Subject, subject complement, object, object of preposition, appositive
What is the gerund in the following sentence and what is it functioning as?
Min tried sketching portraits of people rather than animals.
Sketching portraits of people rather than animals - direct object
What is the difference between simile and metaphor
simile compares things using like or as where as a metaphor describes something as something it is not, so compares without like or as
A participle + its other modifiers
what is the difference between a misplaced participle and a dangling participle?
What do all gerunds have in common?
What is the gerund in this sentence and what is it functioning as?
I didn't know math skills could lead to getting so many interesting jobs.
getting so many interesting jobs - object of a preposition
What years did World War 2 take place?
1939-1945
What is the participle and its phrase in this sentence:
Kissing the child gently, the mother cuddled the little girl.
Kissing the child gently,
Is this sentence displaying a misplaced or a dangling participle? How do you fix it.
Covered with glaze, the instructor put the pot in the kiln.
Dangling;
Covered with glaze, the pot was put in the kiln.
What is the gerund in this sentence:
People began using nicknames a long time ago.
Using - usning nicknames a long time ago.
Is the following sentence using a gerund or a participle?
The coach watched the girls swimming.
Participle
Who was the only present to serve 3 terms?
What is the participle phrase in this sentence:
The subjects found in her own life and surroundings became the topics in her book Cross Creek
found in her own life and surroundings
Is this sentence displaying a misplaced participle?
Inspired by the works in the museum, I began one myself.
What is the gerund and what is it being used as in this sentence?
The famous author JRR Toklkein loved writing fantastical tales.
Writing fantastical tales - direct object
If the emphasis is on the doer- it is a participle
if the emphasis is on the action - it is a gerund
What are the nine parts of speech?
noun, adjective, pronoun, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection