I have here a page from one of those old books I was talking about. And the resources will be, of course, and are available for you. The participial phrase I've chosen because the explanation in the book for this kind of thing is I think it clears it up and makes it easier to grasp. Not only that, but a lot of the exam tutoring, I've done. The participial phrase is the thing that I actually asked students to identify. So as you practice this kind of thing, and you are trying to get better at English.

Well, you know, these are these certain kinds of exercises can really help sir if you direct your exercise in a certain way, it makes it more clear it makes the language more clear. It just gives you clarity in what you're doing. And I actually have taken that idea from a veteran English teacher. You know, when I was younger, one of the best Veterans who had a ton of success, teaching sh T. and AC t said, you know, he said I go through the English part of the AC T and the same kind of stuff with the LSAT, the part where you have to find mistakes. And we simply take out all the participial phrases. And I was like, Oh, okay.

And in order to do that, you need to know what a participial phrase is, you already know the phrases. So now we have participial phrases and we can identify them more clearly. And so this is one of those things where you need to dribble before you can play basketball. You need to know what phrases before you know it a participial phrases and then by identifying them, you can then use them. Let's not lose focus. The idea is you use these things in your own life where you're writing, particularly writing in a way that's complex and clear.

And this will again put you in the head of the pack. And you'll do better in whatever it is you want to do as long as you can complete a sentence well and complete it with what it needs in a complex way. That's correct. You're going to be fine. So what we have here, let's read what it says in, in the book because they really word things. Well this is one of those old books that makes sense.

A participle may be modified by an adverb or by a prepositional phrase used as an adverb, and it may have a compliment, okay, that's complex. Let's see what they mean. These related words combined with a participle to make a participial phrase. So in other words, it's a participle. That is in a phrase form. So you'll see here, it says 3g in red, a participial phrase consists of a participle and it's related words.

So a participle is going to be one of these things that makes it more clear, it adds ingredients to make it more complicated, and you can get more detail which is really one of the key words Detailed complexity in a sentence. So consists of a participle and its related words such as modifiers, and complements all of which act together as an adjective. So you have a phrase here and it is acting as an adjective. So here you have in boldface type the adjectives that are really phrases climbing the tree. The monkey soon disappeared into the top most branches. So here you have this example here.

Climbing the tree is describing the monkey. And you learn when you were little that adjectives describe nouns while you have the monkey. And it's not brown monkey or furry monkey or loud monkey. It is climbing the tree comma, the monkey soon disappeared into the timeless branches. It's describing the monkey. The monkey is the subject disappeared is the verb the monkey disappeared is the sentence But here we've made it remember we start in the center and work our way out the monkey disappeared.

Okay, let's go a little further the monkey disappeared into the branches the monkey soon disappeared into the top most branches. Let's make it even more detailed. This is what I've been talking to you about through the whole class climbing the tree. The monkey soon disappeared into the top most branches. Now you have a clear but somehow concise sentence that everybody reading it can in your mind's eye See, quote unquote see what is going on. Because without that detail, it's not quite the same.

I heard him whispering to his friend. Oh subject for Complete thought I heard him period. Well, I heard him whispering to his friend. So here you have the description of him. We watched the storm blowing eastward, this one here, the storm is being described by blowing eastward notice all of the bold material here is simply words in a series. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now we have a more complicated sentence nominated unanimously by the delegates, comma, the candidate thanked her supporters, just like before the candidate thanked her supporters is your sentence and that phrase is explaining a detail that really makes the sentence better the candidate thanked her supporters, you don't really know what that means you could There are tons of detail that you might want to add to that. Will you make it concise and clear yet having a nice bit of complexity by saying nominated unanimously by the delegates Candidate thanked her supporters. That's a good sentence. Next one, the concert scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed until next week. Another very good sentence, the concert has been postponed period, you could do that. The concert has been postponed until next week, you could say that, but you really need to be more clear.

The concert scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed until next week, that last sentence is really giving you what you need. And this is the way that you're going to do it that hierarchical the hierarchy of words, document where you start with a simple word, and work your way out is what they've done here. They just have the sentences ready to go. So you have these descriptions. And you have these what look like just kind of, you know, words in a series that makes sense, but they play a role. And so these are Words, climbing the tree whispering to his friend blowing eastward, notice the IMG unanimously nominated and as you guys delegates there's an ED one here scheduled, right?

These are words that look like verbs, but are not verbs. So you have a participle, right? That's kind of what that is. It's a word that looks like a verb but isn't because the verbs are somewhere else in the sentence. So you have these phrases and remember, let's go way back to the beginning. I told you that a phrase is just a bunch of words in a sentence, and it plays a role.

Everybody knows the subject of a sentence is what the sentence or who the sentence is talking about. Everybody knows that the verb is the action in the sentence or the state of being. I am cold. Am is the verb she is tall is is the verb that's what I mean by state of being. Well, when you get complicated sentences, you have same kind of thing. Every bit of the sentence can be labeled.

And it's not so important that you know the labels, it helps, I think, but each one and each phrase in this case, plays a role. The concert scheduled for tomorrow that's describing the concert has been postponed until next week, it gives a bigger, better idea about the concert. So let's take a look at the other one where you're going to do exercises. And you have here let's make this a little bit bigger. Spread it out a little bit so you can see it more clearly. And you've got here identifying participial phrases and the words they modify.

This is your exercise. Here is your practice. What you Gonna do and you can do this two ways you can do it the way they say, because it says each of the following sentences contains one or more participial phrases which is true. Right each participial phrase and after it right the noun or pronoun modifies, that's the best way to do this. There's another way to do it, where you just bring out the paper and then circle the participial phrases, but I think it matters. Also, you could maybe that underline the noun, you have.

Um, you know, you can do it that way too. But I think it's a little bit hard. It's like, you know, shooting free throws from further away or it's actually doing it and running uphill, you know, you're going to get a different kind of bang for your buck than running just on flat ground. But either way, works. When you take a look at the example and do what they say you can either circle and underline or you can write it out, but the example is a good one. hindered by bad weather, the British accent Addition lost the race to the South Pole, arriving a month after the Norwegians.

Good standard notice not overly complicated sentence. There's no complex vocabulary. You don't need to use five and $10 words, when a basic word will do. You don't need to try to get fancy. So, here you've got two participial phrases hindered by bad weather, and then the noun that was being talked about, or modified, as they say, was the expedition. hindered by bad weather expedition this year.

Talking about the expedition, arriving a month after the Norwegians what arrive what was arriving a month after Norwegians. Same thing, the expedition. Notice the expedition lost. That's actually your sentence. The expedition last period, think about this is what you're going to do. This is kind of exciting stuff, you're going to make it more complicated.

And you're going to do it the same way the British expedition last, and then continue to work your way out. The British expedition lost the race to the South Pole. And now you've added the two phrases at the end, hindered by bad weather. The British expedition lost the race to the South Pole, arriving a month after the Norwegians. That's how you build English. Yes, this book from 1985, or whenever it was put together, probably before then explains to you chapter and verse, how you're going to write and speak wonderful English.

Let's do number one together. And then and when you take the class, you can run things by me to see if you did them correctly. No notice, I'm going to give you a cheat code here. You're looking for IMG For EDI, verb looking words, and I say that intentionally because participles are words that look like verbs but are not. For example, the British expedition lost the race. The expedition last last is the verb.

None of these hindered is not the verb of the sentence, either is arriving, they're part of just a phrase. So part is the bulls again look like verbs but are not. They're adjectives. They describe stuff. And so these phrases you're going to be looking for EDI, or IMG words we'll do the first together, hoping to be the first to reach the South Pole. The British explorer Robert Scott, taking four men with him.

Began his final dash to the pole on January 4 19. Okay, well I mgx words EDI words hoping to be the first to reach the South Pole right here. Here, what is it talking about? Well, let's take a look and see if there's Is there a person or a thing? There's a person in here, Robert Scott, could that work? As the subject, I think so Robert Scott began his final dash.

Right, or Robert Scott began his dash. And we're just going to build from that Robert Scott began his final dash, where to the South Pole, Robert Scott, taking four men with him began his final dash to the South Pole, hoping to be the first to the reta South Pole who the British explorer Robert Scott. So hoping to be the first to reach the South Pole is your participial phrase, who or what is it talking about? Robert Scott. And then what else do we have here? Oh, taking four men with him, who's taking foreman with him Robert Scott.

And you have here The phrase describing Scott and you have those two phrases are there right in front of you. Now, here's the thing very quickly, because this is a little longer than I want it to go. But I think this is important. Remember when I was saying how a veteran teacher showed me some of the exam tips? Well, if you take those out those two participial phrases you have, the British explorer Robert Scott began his final dash to the pole on January 4 1912. So what they do on the exams is they have the subject over here and the verb over here.

And they'll put a phrase in the middle to try to see to it that you don't recognize the subject and the verb agreement. So this is one of those things that once you see the tricks and once you see how these tools can be used, there's so many different ways that this high level of literacy that this ability to navigate English can help you in various parts of your life. So I know that sounds a little grand, but that's how I see it. And I've seen it happen. So here we are going to get rid of all the mysteries, you do one through 10. And we're talking about practice, and the practice will get it done.

So print out what you need. See the IMG look for the IMG and the EDI words. Each of the following contains one or more participial phrases. I believe one of them has three. I'd have to double check. But I've done this with students over the years and if I remember correctly, one of them has three I'm just gonna leave that out there for you to figure out and you will practice and get better.

That doesn't sound like fun, right? This grammar stuff is just great. Everyone loves it. We all love grammar. As a matter of fact, we will do grammar on Monday because I just simply can't get enough