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?

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.