1. Find the gerunds and gerund phrases.
The winning team loves winning.
Eating is my favorite activity.
He loves reading novels, but he hates reading poems.

2. Verbals Notes (Day 2): Participles

3. Today’s Verbal: Participles
Look like verbs in the past or present tense, but are actually adjectives.
Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns, so participles modify nouns and pronouns.

4. Participle Examples:
The hunted deer
The peeking kid

5. Types of Participles Past Present Past participles end in –ed or –en.
Example: The forgotten boy cried until his parents came back.
Forgotten describes boy.
Present participles end in –ing.
The running jaguar captured its prey.
Running describes jaguar.

6. Participial phrases
Participles may have multiple words attached to them to help modify a noun.
Strolling slowly, the couple enjoyed their walk in the park.
Hunted for its tusks, elephants are killed with most of their bodies left to rot by poachers.

7. Summary Questions What is a verbal?
What part of speech is a participle?
What do participles modify?
What do participial endings look like?