Question

Identify the participial adjective in the sentence. The frightened animal ran around looking for a means to escape. frightened around looking escape​

Answer 1

Identify the participial adjective in the sentence.

The frightened animal ran around looking for a means to escape.

(a)frightened (b)around (c)looking (d)escape​

Answer:

The frightened animal ran around looking for a means to escape.

In the above sentence, the word ''frightened'' is the participle adjective.

• Participle adjectives are the words that are end with the ''-ed'' and ''-ing''.

• Participle adjectives have the same endings as the verb participles.

• In the given sentence, ''The frightened animal ran around looking for a means to escape.'', the adjective word 'frightened' is ending with ''-ed'' so it is a participle adjective.

• In the given sentence, the word 'looking' is not the participle adjective even though it ends with ''-ing'' because it acts as a verb in the sentence.

Answer 2

Answer:

Identify the participial adjective in the sentence : The frightened animal ran around looking for a means to escape.

• According to the given question the participal adjective is : frightened.

• Usually we use participle adjectives into relative clauses.

• Participle Adjectives are of three types and they are : Present Participle, Past Participle and Perfect Participle.

• Past participle are formed by adding 'ed' and 'en' after verb : Boiled = boil+ed.

• Past Participles can be extended into Relative Clauses. They can be shorten sentences by replacing Relative Clauses.

• Examples : 1. A retired teacher teaches him English. A teacher who has retried from service teaches him English (Extended).

• 2. The police is looking for the prisoner who has escaped. The police is looking for the escaped prisoner. (Shortened).

• Here 'looking' means verb, so 'frightened' is participle adjective.