identify the present participle: 1)tyler sang in the church choir on sundays or 2)i am trying my best. i think the second one.(next ques.)i blank my teacher if i could bring my grandparents to the science fair. A)asked or has asked i go for a.
1 - correct
2 - correct
To identify the present participle in a sentence, you should look for a verb form that ends in "-ing." In the given sentences:
1) "Tyler sang in the church choir on Sundays."
Here, the word "sang" is the main verb, and it does not end in "-ing." So there is no present participle in this sentence.
2) "I am trying my best."
In this sentence, the word "trying" is the present participle. It ends in "-ing" and is part of the verb phrase "am trying."
For the next question:
"I blank my teacher if I could bring my grandparents to the science fair. A)asked or has asked, I go for a."
To determine the correct answer, we need to consider the tense and the grammatical structure of the sentence.
The sentence has two clauses:
1) "I blank my teacher"
2) "if I could bring my grandparents to the science fair"
We are looking for the present participle that fits with the first clause ("I blank my teacher").
In this case, the correct choice would be "asked" since it is the simple past tense of the verb "ask." The present participle form of "ask" is "asking," but since the sentence is in the past tense, we use "asked."
So the correct answer is A) "asked."
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any more questions.