Past Participial Phrases Rule!

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Participial phrases allow your sentences to be more complex. Strong writers use them often, and it's great to have this sentence pattern as "a bow in your quiver." It can be easier to write them than analyze their grammatical features, but if we have sufficient writing experiences with them, encounter them a lot, and review what's involved with them, then we can learn the grammar involved. Please review the information and examples below. This form, then, is a "place" for our students to write and learn about participial phrases, with the goals of sharing them and understanding how they work.

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Combine these sentences to form one with a past participial phrase. State the subject only once.

The passengers were reassured that the Titanic could not sink. The passengers began to relax and enjoy their voyage.

Write several creative, elaborated sentences with past participial phrases here.

(You could start by writing separate sentences that share the same subject and then combine them.)

Here is a partial list of past participles that you could select from:

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