Inc. All rights reserved. A participle is used as an adjective and ends in various ways. A present participle always ends with ing as does the gerund, but remember that it is an adjective. A past participle ends with ed, n, or irregularly.
Participles modify nouns and pronouns and can precede or follow the word modified.
Find the participles in these sentences and tell what word they modify. The bike had a broken spoke. Her smiling face made everyone happy. The frightened child was crying loudly. The people were frightened by the growling dog.