Help me with my language arts please!?

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Question by CJ: Help me with my language arts please!?
All the following sentences have at least one participle. For each sentence given, select the response that names the participle(s) in the sentence and the nouns they modify.

Each response has two parts. In the first is a participle, and the second is the noun that it supposedly modifies.

participle “/” indicating that it is modifying a noun.

Please notice that may be more than one in a sentence.

1.) Many persons, hoping to skim the cream, have made lists of so-called “bests.”
“hoping” / “lists”
“hoping” / “persons”
“have made” / “persons”

2.) You probably have felt discouraged and dissatisfied with some of the lists.
“dissatisfied” & “discouraged” / “you”
“felt” / “you”
“dissatisfied” & “discouraged” / “lists”

3.) A list made by a single person is simply one individual’s opinion.
“single” / “person”
“made” / “person”
“made” / “list”

4.) Other lists, worked on by a group, are surely more representative.
“other” / “lists”
“worked” / “lists”
“representative” / “lists”

5.) The University of Chicago has a list of one hundred great books considered essential to the education of thinking persons.
“essential” / “books” & “thinking” / “persons”
“considered” / “books” & “thinking” / “persons”
“considered” / “list” & “persons” / “education”

6.) That list, hailed by some and scorned by others, covers all fields of knowledge.
“hailed” / “fields” & “covers” / “fields”
“hailed” / “list” & “scorned” / “knowledge”
“hailed” / “list” & “scorned” / “list”

7.) Having gone over the list, you will agree that it is representative.
“representative” / “list”
“having gone” / “list”
“having gone” / “you”

8.) Including science, philosophy, literature, and the arts, it can give the inquiring mind food for
thought.
“including” / “it” & “inquiring” / “mind”
“including” / “science, philosophy, and the arts” & “inquiring” / “mind”
“including” / “it” & “can give” / “it”

9.) Working together now, make a list of the best books or poems.
“working” / “books or poems”
“working” / “let’s” (unstated)
“working” / “list”

10.) The arguments that follow will be startling.
“follow” / “arguments”
“will be startling” / “arguments”
“startling” / “arguments”

Best answer:

Answer by Rodica
Participial Adjectives 1 -ed / -ing
Cause vs. Receiver of an Emotion

A participial adjective modifies a noun and may indicate:
– source of feeling or emotion
– receiver of feeling or emotion

1) Many persons, hoping to skim the cream, have made lists of so-called “bests.”
Called is the past participle of CALL, here used as adjective. So-called modifies bests.

2) You probably have felt discouraged and dissatisfied with some of the lists.
You have felt is the verb. Discouraged and dissatisfied are past participle of discourage and dissatisfy. Because of the LIST
YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE ENDING (-ED, -ING) TO IDENTIFY THE PARTICIPIAL ADJECTIVE.
You can do it!

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/passive3a.html

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