Transcript Painting With Participles and Gilding With Gerunds

Painting With Participles
and Gilding With Gerunds
Ideas collected
from Image Grammar
To Paint With a Participle
• Add an “ing” or “ed” to a verb in the
sentence.
• The verb will no longer act as a “verb” but
will take on the job of a “participle.”
• A participle’s task is to act like an
adjective.
• You may have to add another verb to your
sentence.
• You will probably have to rearrange and
connect some words or phrases.
Let’s See How That Looks
• Sample sentence: “The person was looking
for us. He was a small fellow with spectacles.
His face was wizened.”
• Painted with Participles: “The person looking
for us was a small fellow with spectacles in a
wizened face.” –Night by Elie Weisel
• Which words are the participles?
• What did you notice about the sentence after
it was “painted?”
Beginning Sentences With
Participles
• A beginning “ed” participle: ALL THE
SKILLED WORKERS had already been sent
to other camps.
• A beginning “ing” participial phrase:Sitting on
the ground, we counted bolts, bulbs, and
various small electrical.
Ending Sentences With
Participles
• Ending with an “ed” participle: In no time, the
camp had the look of an abandoned ship.
• Ending with an “ing” participial phrase: They
allowed themselves to be kissed and tickled,
bursting with laughter.
Time to Practice
• Revise the following sentences to include a
participle. Remember to look at the verbs.
Then add an “ing” or “ed.” Rearrange and
combine words and sentences. Then enjoy
your painting!
• He narrowed his beady eyes. He read the title
of one of his books.
• “Narrowing his beady eyes, he read the title
of one of the books.” —Lemony Snicket, The
Bad Beginning
To Gild with a Gerund
• Add an “ing” to a verb in the sentence.
• The verb will no longer act as a “verb” but will
take on the job of a “gerund.”
• A gerund’s task is to act like an noun.
• It should act as a subject, predicate
nominative, direct object or object of a
preposition.
• You will probably have to rearrange, delete/or
add, and connect some words or phrases.
Let’s See How That Looks
• Revise the following sentences to include a
gerund. Remember to look at the verbs. Then
add an “ing.” Rearrange, add/delete, and
combine words and sentences. Then enjoy
your painting!
• He pushed the handcart up to the man’s
house. It was tiring.
• “Pushing the handcart up to the man’s house
was tiring.” —John Hershey, Hiroshima
Let’s Practice
• Revise the following sentence to include a gerund.
Remember to look at the verbs. Then add an “ing.”
Rearrange, add/delete, combine words and
sentences. Then enjoy your glittering!
• Love does not consist. They gazed at each other.
But they looked outward together in the same
direction.
• “Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in
looking outward together in the same direction.”—
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
How Might That Work Using a
Participle or a Gerund?
• Original: The radio that Werner fixed seemed
like a miracle.
• Revise a verb with a participle: Werner’s fixed
radio seemed like a miracle.
• Revise a verb with a gerund: Fixing the radio
seemed like a miracle.
It’s Time To Be On Your Own!
• Read the practice directions carefully.
• Do your best job!!!
• Turn in on time.