Identifying
Participles Answers
Directions:
Underline the participles in the sentence below. Each
sentence contains one participle.
Example:
Clark’s drum major uniform includes tasseled boots, breeches, a jacket with epaulets, and a hat with a plume
1. The proposed bicycle routes would follow toll roads through several states.
2. Holograms, images created by laser light, appear to be three dimensional.
3. The egret, its head titled to one side, prepared to spear its prey.
4. Annie soldered the colored pieces of glass together.
5. Many unaccompanied children regularly fly across the country.
6. In the nineteenth century mews were stables or carriage houses grouped around courtyards.
7. Briggs named his car Whistler because of the hissing sounds it makes.
8. Scuba divers breathe compressed air from tanks with mouthpieces.
9. New Yorkers assume that a flashing “Don’t Walk” sign actually means run.
10. Pictures taken by Viking I and Viking II show that the surface of Mars looks much like the American Southwest.