Participles
The stomping student scared Ms. Jones.
Identify the participial phrase:
Dan loved his new basketball shoes, wearing them even to bed.
wearing them even to bed
Participles are imposters that act like _____________
Identify the gerund:
I was afraid of hurting her feelings.
hurting
Identify the gerund phrase:
Do you like fishing in the pond?
fishing in the pond
Barely listening, Jessie dozed off at her desk.
listening
Students planning to study engineering must first meet with the Dean of Technology.
planning to study engineering
To prove that you have chosen the correct participle, you can _______________ with it and still have a complete ___________________.
PART, SENTENCE
What I dislike most is repeating myself.
repeating
Collecting baseball cards is a popular hobby.
collecting baseball cards
rollerblading
Eaten by mosquitos, we wished we had never gone camping.
Eaten by mosquitos
True or False:
A participle must only end in an -ing or -ed ending.
FALSE. Irregular verbs can end in (d), (t), (n), or (en).
The job involves traveling to Japan once a month.
traveling
Writing calligraphy is a difficult skill to master.
writing calligraphy
The screaming Karen was escorted out of the building by a security guard.
screaming
I saw Maria running for the plane.
running for the plane
True or False:
Gerunds can end in -ing and -ed endings
FALSE, only -ing endings
The old gardener has not finished cutting the grass for 2 days.
Would you like to walk instead of taking the bus?
taking the bus
Sneezing, the student scared all of his classmates.
sneezing
The dog running up to the boy hopes that he will have a treat.
running up to the boy
Gerund phrases usually end at the next _________ or _________.
punctuation mark, verb
I was dreaming of flying to the moon in a capsule.
flying
It's no use in trying it; you have to glue it.
trying it