I.  Write the participles of each of the following verbs.

1. find
2. obey
3. ride
4. grow
5. lie
6. lay
7. sit
8. set
9. lose
10. loose
11. load
12. steal
13. arrive
14. suppose
15. happen
16. come
17. do
18. take
19. run

II.  Use each of the participles just created in a short sentence, for instance, using the verb to find, write:

Finding his mistake, he left.
          or
The source of the river being found, the travelers returned home.
          or
Having found the owner, he restored the ring.

III. Point out the participles in the following example. Tell what kind of participle each one is and name the verb from which it is derived:

1. Let the last feeble and lingering glance of my dying eyes rather behold gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced,—its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured.
     Daniel Webster
2. One wave rises, and, having reached its destined limit, falls gently away, and is succeeded by yet another.
    Story
3. Then shook the hills, with thunder riven;
   Then rushed the steeds to battle driven;
   And, louder than the bolts of heaven,
   Far flashed the red artillery.
   Campbell
4. The warriors on the turrets high,
   Moving athwart the evening sky,
   Seemed forms of giant height.
   Above the gloomy portal arch,
   Timing his footsteps to a march,
   The warder kept his guard,
   Low humming,
   as he paced along,
   Some ancient border-gathering song.     
   Scott