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Be sure to sign your name. I enjoy cooking fish. I counted at least twenty guests.

Practice adding prepositional phrases to sentences and identifying them as adverbial or adjectival. Explore participles and their usage as adjectives, nouns, or adverbs. Additional exercises with participles modifying nouns.

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Be sure to sign your name. I enjoy cooking fish. I counted at least twenty guests.

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  1. Warm-Up 10/18/12Re-write the following sentences to add a prep phrase. Then, identify the prep phrase as ADV or ADJ. • Be sure to sign your name. • I enjoy cooking fish. • I counted at least twenty guests.

  2. Participles • Verbals: word formed from verbs. Used as adj, nouns, or adv. • Participle: a type of verbal. Used as adj. • Present participle • Smiling, the winner accepted the trophy. • Past participle • The old, dented scooter was still reliable.

  3. Participle practiceWrite the participle/noun modified • Our excited meteorologists told us that the storm’s name was Clive. • It was the first storm in recorded history to reach our town. • The worried townspeople hastily nailed up boards and filled sandbags. • My grandparents recalled a similarly chilling storm from their youth. • When the storm hit, everyone hunkered down in their mildewing basements.

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