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What are participles and how do you use them?
A participle is a verbal, or a word based off of a verb that expresses a state of being, ending in -ing (present tense) or -ed, -en, -d, -t, -n, or -ne (past tense) that functions as an adjective. This means it needs to modify (or describe) a noun or a pronoun.
How do you use participle phrases in a sentence?
Key Points
- Use a participle phrase to say something about your subject before you’ve even mentioned your subject.
- Placed at the front of a sentence, a participle phrase is offset with a comma.
- A participle phrase placed immediately after the noun its modifying is not offset with commas (unless it’s nonessential).
What is participle form?
A participle is a form of a verb that can be used as an adjective or combined with the verb to be to construct different verb tenses.
Why do we use participles?
Participle clauses enable us to say information in a more economical way. They are formed using present participles (going, reading, seeing, walking, etc.), past participles (gone, read, seen, walked, etc.) or perfect participles (having gone, having read, having seen, having walked, etc.).
What is the difference between participle phrase and participle clause?
In short, a phrase has no subject but a clause has a subject. A participle is a verbal functioning as an ADJECTIVE — to modify a noun or pronoun. A participle clause is a form of ADVERBIAL clause (even though the participle itself is functioning as an adjective).
What is past participle and present participle?
Present participle and Past participle are two terms used in English grammar that show some difference between them when it comes to their application. Present participle is used for the construction of continuous tenses. Past participle is used for the construction of simple perfect tenses.
How do you know if a participle is past or present?
For regular verbs, a past participle is typically formed by adding -ed to the end of the root form of the verb, the form you’ll find if you look up a verb in our dictionary. For example, the past participle of kick is kicked.