Example of a Verb that is NOT a participle

In answer to your first request: verbs which are not participles:

Here are two quotations. Marked verbs are NOT participles. ('Lit' is the participle form)

I wish I were a firefly, and I could light cigars and cheroots with my tail.

And, in this extract from a Shakespeare song, only staring is a participle.

When icicles hang by the wall,
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
To-whoo;