1. Past Participles You may click on the speaker icon to listen You may click on the speaker icon to listen to an audio presentation of this power point in addition to viewing the slide presentation

2. Past Participles Regular Regular Past Participles end in –ed – –WantedNeeded – –SavedCarried Irregular Irregular Past Participles have vowel and consonant changes. – –SeenTaken – –WrittenLeft

3. Past Participles Like Like present participles, past participles can have direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, and prepositional phrases. Who/What? Who/What? + is + Participle = word modified

4. Past Participle Phrase –The –The police examined the body burned beyond all recognition. speaker, known for her strong support of the environment, was loudly applauded. committee could not deal with the storm of protest raised by office workers.

5. Past Participles They lost sight of the man seen by the night watchman. They took the dog struck by the car to the vet. Bitten by the dog on the leg, the child limped into the house.

6. Conclusion There are two types of participles: Present Past Present Participles always end in –ing. Past Participles can end in –ed (if they’re regular). Past Participles can also have a vowel change or a consonant change (if they’re irregular)---swum or known.

7. Conclusion Participles Participles always function as adjectives. can be phrases that contain direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, and prepositional phrases To To learn what the participle phrase modifies, ask the following question: Who/What? Who/What? + is + participle/participle phrase= the word modified