Participles and participial phrases

2. Let’s have an
exercise!

3. Directions:
Underline each participial phrase and
then encircle the word or the words
that this phrase describes.

4. 1. Making sure that a TV program lasts only
as long as it’s supposed to, the television
directors stay alert.
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5. 2. The directors working in the studio behind
the cameras are called floor directors.
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6. 3. The directors working in a glassed-in
control room look into the studio.
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7. 4. Talking to each other during rehearsals,
the directors and the floor directors wear
special headsets.
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8. 5. Telling the actors what to do, the floor
directors use their hands and arms.
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9. 6. They use symbols or signals so that they
won’t be heard by people watching television.
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10. 7. What do scattered stones mean?
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11. 8. Maybe, they mean more than just
a lot of stones scattered in a field.
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12. 9. If you were an archeologist, a person
studying ancient ruins, you might get into
an airplane and fly over the stones.
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13. 10. The formed patterns of stones mean
that people probably had put them there
long ago.
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