1. Using Harry Noden’s TRIPLE PARTICIPLE Brush Strokes
“Paint Your Picture”
Using Harry Noden’s TRIPLE PARTICIPLE Brush Strokes
Designed & Developed by Deanne Davis, Council Traditional School, 2006 (All Rights Reserved)

2. Triple Participle Brush Strokes
A PARTICIPLE can help add visual description to your writing.
A PARTICIPLE is a verb that ends with –ing.
Use 3 (triple) PARTICIPLES, separated by commas, to add descriptive details to sentences.

3. Triple Participle Brush Stroke EXAMPLE #1:
Target sentence: A man bungeed from the bridge.
Target sentence with
triple participles:
Whooping, praying, and plummeting, a man
bungeed from the bridge.

4. Triple Participle Brush Stroke EXAMPLE #2:
Target sentence:
A tiny squirrel groomed
its paws.
Target sentence with
triple participles:
Nibbling, lapping, and preening, a tiny squirrel groomed its paws.

5. Triple Participle Brush Stroke EXAMPLE #3:
Target sentence:
The driver celebrated an easy victory.
Target sentence with triple participles:
Cheering, bounding, and bellowing, the driver celebrated an easy victory.

6. Triple Participle Brush Stroke EXAMPLE #4:
Target sentence:
The fajitas arrived at our table.
Target sentence with triple participles:
Sizzling, crackling, and show-stopping, the fajitas arrived at our table.

7. Triple Participle Brush Stroke YOUR TURN:
Target sentence:
The pirate fled from the angry natives.

8. Can you do it without a target sentence?

9. Try some more…