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What did you write for the non-participle sentences? Did you "**tell**" how Runt was feeling or what he was doing?

Examples you may have written could be:

Runt picked the vending machine up and shook it. He was frustrated with the vending machine. Runt was mad at the broken vending machine. He shook the vending machine.

What did you write for the participle sentence? Did you "show" how Runt was feeling or what he was doing?

===Example 1) With his entire body trembling and a crazed look in his eyes, Runt picked up the vending machine and shook it. ===

Example 2) All at once, gasping for air and screaming, Runt picked up the vending machine and shook it.
__Checking for Understanding:__

Let us pause here for a moment and re-look at the sentences we made sure they are participle sentences.

On the first page, we noted that a participle is "a verbal (something that is based on a verb and therefore expresses action or a state of being) that is used as an adjective and most often ends in //-ing// or //-ed."//

We know they are participle sentences if we can answer positively to these two questions: 1) Is there a verbal used as an adjective to describe a noun (usually the main subject of the sentence)? 2) Does the verbal end with an -ing or -ed?

As I look at my first participle sentence. I notice that I have the verbal "trembling" and "crazed" which are both participles that describe the subject, Runt. Second, "trembling" ends with "-ing" and "crazed" ends with "-ed." Thus I verify that I have created a participle sentence.

In the second participle sentence, I notice that I have the participles "gasping" and "screaming." Both these participles again describe the subject, Runt. Second, "gasping," and "screaming" both end with "-ing."

Your turn: Look at the participle sentences you have created and check that you can also answer positively to the 2 questions above.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In the next page, I will show 3 different scenes and ask you to create non-participle and participle sentences on your own describing the characters in the scenes.

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