Unit XI:

Appearances

Vocabulary: appearances

Describe these people

Modifiers + participles and prepositional phrases

for description

A participle ending in ING is known as a present participle.

Ex: participle: verb + ing

wear+ ing: wearing
sit+ ing: sitting
A participial phrase functions as an adjective phrase. It modifies a noun
Ex: He is the man wearing jeans.
He is the man talking to Liz

Prepositional phrase: Consistsofapreposition,itsobject isusuallyanounorapronoun.

Ex: He is the man in jeans.
He is the boy next to Liz.

Modifiers + prepositions or participles

Vocabulary: Clothes

Who is -are .?
I. Answer the questions. Use prepositional and participial phrases for
each answer.
The Smiths

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Who
Who
Who
Who
Who
Who

is Julia?
is Peter?
are Smiths?
is rose?
is Ling?
is James?

Juli
a

James

Rose

Ling
Peter

II. Answer the questions. Use the information in the brackets ( )

1. Who`s Vanessa? (curly red hair)

________________________________.
2. Who`s Marie? (next to the window)
_________________________________.
3. Who are the Andersons? (on the couch)
__________________________________.
4. who`s Manuel? (white shirt)
___________________________________.
5. Who`s Katy? (stripped blouse)
___________________________________.
6. who are the Martinez? (long blond hair)

Answer the questions. Use the information in the brackets ( )

1. Who`s Vanessa? (curly red hair)
________________________________.
2. Who`s Marie? (next to the window)
_________________________________.
3. Who are the Andersons? (on the couch)
__________________________________.
4. who`s Manuel? (white shirt)
___________________________________.
5. Who`s Katy? (stripped blouse)
___________________________________.
6. who are the Martinez? (long blond hair)
__________________________________________.

quiz