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  Understanding Verbs: Gerunds, Participles, & Infinitives

Exercise 2

Underline the participles or participial phrases in each sentence.

  1. Hurriedly fastening his backpack, Joe rushed off to school.
  2. The frozen fish was an easy meal for Jim to cook.
  3. Staring at the items on the sales rack, Jill could not make a quick decision.
  4. The car, damaged by the hailstorm, was taken to the body shop.
  5. The woman wearing the blue sweater is Jack’s mother.

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