Read these sentences from "The Brave Little Toaster."

Question

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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.
2. Or rather, it was almost empty: there was a single pouch of energy drink sitting on a shelf in the back.
3. LOONY GOONY's singing voice really got on
Mister Toussaint's nerves.
4. It had been designed and built by cavemen who hadn't ever considered the advantages of networked environments.
5. The fire department took away the melted toaster and used their axes to knock huge, vindictive holes in Mister Toussaint's walls.

Answer 1

Sure! Here are the participles in each sentence along with the nouns they modify:

1. Participle: signed
   Noun modified: order

2. Participle: sitting
   Noun modified: pouch

3. Participle: singing
   Noun modified: voice

4. Participle: designed, built
   Noun modified: it (the noun "it" refers to the toaster in context)

5. Participle: melted
   Noun modified: toaster

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