CHAPTER 15 / ESSENTIAL GRAMMAR SKILLS 537Concept Review 7:
Dangling and Misplaced Participles
- If a participial phrase followed by a comma begins a sentence, it must be followed by
Give the past and present participle forms of each of the following verbs.2.push past participle ____________________ present participle ____________________3.run past participle ____________________ present participle ____________________4.take past participle ____________________ present participle ____________________Identify the underlined word as a gerundor a present participle.5.I’ve loved singingever since I was a little girl. 5. ____________________6.I doubt that they would be workingthis late at night. 6. ____________________7.Callingme a bum was a very mean thing to do. 7. ____________________Circle the participle in each sentence, then write whether it is an adjectiveor a verb participle.8.We saw the meteorite as it was falling from the sky. 8. ____________________9.We saw the falling meteorite. 9. ____________________10.The urn was tarnished and chipped. 10. ____________________11.The urn was chipped at the auction. 11. ____________________12.The evidence was damaging to the defense. 12. ____________________13.I could never have run so fast without those shoes. 13. ____________________Circle the participle in each sentence, then rewrite the sentence so that the participle does not “dangle.”
- Looking at your essay, it seems to me that you need to be more specific.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________- Turning the corner, the stadium came into our view.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________- Although exhausted after the night’s work, Martha’s creative instincts compelled her to keep writing.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________- Without waiting for an answer, David’s eagerness got the better of him, and he left in a flash.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________- Thinking her friends were right behind her, it was frightening for Alison to discover that they were gone.
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