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Participial Phrases

Participial Phrases. What is a participial phrase? . A participial phrase is an - ing phrase tagged onto the beginning or end of a sentence. . See it!. Simple sentence: The elephant charged the lions. Revised sentence with participial phrase:

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Participial Phrases

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  1. Participial Phrases

  2. What is a participial phrase? A participial phrase is an -ing phrase tagged onto the beginning or end of a sentence.

  3. See it! Simple sentence: The elephant charged the lions. Revised sentence with participial phrase: Roaring a loud warning screech, the elephant charged the lions. Notice how the single –ingparticipial phrase adds specific details to one action in the image?

  4. Examples Participle with an adverb becomes a phrase: Working quickly, we decorated (participle) (adverb) her locker in fifteen minutes.

  5. Examples continued Participle with a prepositional phrase becomes a participial phrase. John, fishing from the pier, (participle) (prepositional phrase) caught three starfish.

  6. Examples continued… Participial phrase at the end of a sentence. With fascination we watched the spider spinning its web. (participle)

  7. Your turn! Example: Weighing almost three pounds, a hailstone once fell and dented my mom’s car. Answer: weighing almost three pounds. (almost three pounds is a prepositional phrase)

  8. Give it a try! • Of all the symbols appearing on national flags, the star is the most common. • Measuring about 64 million square miles, the Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest body of water.

  9. Practice continued… • Working continuously, the human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in a lifetime. • The Panama Canal, completed in 1914, cost about $350 million. • A person weighing 100 pounds on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.

  10. three more to go. • The Shell Oil Company started out as a novelty shop selling seashells. • The world’s oldest gloves, discovered in King Tut’s tomb, are over 3,300 years old. • The polar regions contain over half of Earth‘s fresh water, trapped in ice.

  11. Answers • appearing on national flags • measuring about 64 square miles • Working continuously • completed in 1914 • weighing 100 pounds • started out as a novelty shop • discovered in King Tut’s tomb • trapped in ice.

  12. Exit Ticket The cheetah gained on the injured zebra. The skateboarder soared over the railing.

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