Question

Identify participles and write if it's past or present tense.  Fake Answers will be deleted.

1. Can you find a new reading exercise?
2. Mrs.Jones is a paid volunteer.
3. Laughing, the boys raced across the court.
4. We all agree that this is a growing problem.
5. Who is our chosen representative?

Answer 1

1. reading - present tense
2. paid - past tense
3. Laughing - present
4. growing - present
5. chosen - past

A participle is a verb that is used as an adjective or a noun. For example, in sentence 1, reading is describing the type of glasses, #2 paid is describing the type of volunteer, etc. Present tense participles usually end in -ing, past tense in -ed.