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Read these sentences from “The Brave Little Toaster.” Identify each participle and the noun that it modifies.

1. His refrigerator had sent in the list, and she had the signed order to prove it

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A participle is a form of a verb used as either an adjective or a part of certain tenses. There are two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. The present participle ends in -ing and the past participle usually ends in -ed, -en, etc.

In the sentence you provided, there are two participles:

sent: This is a past participle that modifies the noun refrigerator. It describes the action that the refrigerator had done in the past.

signed: This is also a past participle that modifies the noun order. It describes the state of the order that she had.

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