Participle Exercise 2

Pick out the Participle in each of the following sentences. Tell whether it is a Present or a Past participle, and also how it is used:

1. The fat of the body is fuel laid away for use.
2. Being occupied with important matters, she had no leisure to see us.
3. The girls coming home from school look in at the open door.
4. Michael, bereft of his son Luke, died of a broken heart.
5. Books read in childhood seem like old friends.
6. Lessons learned easily are soon forgotten.
7. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures (baskets) of silver.
8. Seeing the sunshine, I threw open the window.
9. Seizing her by the arm, her friend led her away.
10. Encouraged by his friend, he persevered.
11. Overcome by remorse, she determined to atone for his crime by liberality to the church.

Answer:

1. Laid - Past Participle, qualifying the noun ‘fuel’.
2. Being occupied - Present Participle, qualifying the pronoun ’she’.
3. Coming - Present Participle, qualifying the noun ‘girls’.
4. Bereft - Past Participle, qualifying the noun ‘Michael’.
5. Read - Past Participle, qualifying the noun ‘books’.
6. Learned - Past Participle, qualifying the noun ‘lessons’.
7. Spoken - Past Participle, qualifying the noun ‘word’.
8. Seeing - Present Participle, governing the noun ‘sunshine’ and qualifying the pronoun ‘I’.
9. Seizing - Present Participle, governing the pronoun ‘her’ and qualifying the noun ‘friend’.
10. Encouraged - Past Participle, qualifying the pronoun ‘he’.
11. Overcome - Past Participle, qualifying the pronoun ‘she’.