Uses of the Present and Past Participles/ Confusions over gerunds and passives/ Language with Ease
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- Uses of the Present and Past Participles/ Confusions over gerunds and passives/ Language with Ease
An invaluable video on the various uses of the participle and its various forms (present/past/perfect). Plus exercises.
The confusions caused by the participle as predicative adjective and as the continuous form of the verb. How to differentiate participles and gerunds that have the same form not just as single words but in phrases at the beginning of the sentence.
The uses of the past participle to make perfect tenses and passive voice. The confusion over the past participle in the passive voice and in the predicative adjective. This video clears a lot of cobwebs.
Watch it several times. Make notes and do exercises. Buy Language with Ease from Amazon or our website www.mindsprings.in For advanced exercises like this one choose Grade 6 or Grade 7 books.
I am giving you some to do here. Scroll for the answers only after you have attempted the questions.
Watch the videos Gerund and participle difference & the video Gerund and Participle exercises for more practice.
Exercise:
Identify the use of the participle in these sentences and say whether they are attributive adjectives, predictive adjectives, continuous tenses, perfect tenses, passive voice, compound adjectives, or gerunds. Some sentences may have two functions.
1. The table was overturned when I entered the room.
2. The boy has been sleeping for a long time.
3. He has a terrible habit of sleeping during the day.
4. Being exhausted and in great pain, mother collapsed on the bed.
5. Finding the theif, the police did not hesitate to arrest him.
6. Searching for the password was an impossible task.
7. I have never read such a gripping book before.
8. Having finished his chores, Ramlal went to find his brother.
9. Being taught Math at MIT was an honour Sudhakar cherished.
10. Hardly had she gone to the window than the shots rang out.
11. The moth ridden carpet told a heart-rending story.
12. Taking advantage of the poor is a cowardly thing to do.
13. The winding road bent towards the river that was flooded.
14. The frogs were croaking all night without stopping.
15. Stressed and defeated, the party members retired to lick their wounds.
Scroll down for answers.
Answers:
1. was overturned - passive voice verb (past participle) /overturned (predicative adjective)
2. has been sleeping - present perfect continuous tense (made of the present perfect tense of the verb 'has been' and the present participle (sleeping)
3. of sleeping - gerund (present participle - object of the preposition 'of')
4. Being exhausted and in great pain - perfect participle phrase (Perfect partiple made of present and past participles)
5. Finding the thief - participle phrase (present participle)
6. Searching for the password - gerund phrase (present participle)
7. gripping book - attributive adjective (present participle)
8. Having finished his chores - perfect participle phrase (perfect participle made of present and past participles)
9. Being taught Math - perfect participle (passive voice) (perfect participle made of present and past participles)
10. had gone - past perfect tense of verb ( made of the verb 'had' and the past participle of the 'go')
11. moth-ridden - compound adjective (past participle)
heart rending - compound adjective (present participle)
12. Taking advantage of the poor - gerund phrase (present participle - subject of the verb 'is')
13. winding road - attributive adjective (present participle) ;
was flooded - predicative adjective / passive voice verb.
14. were croaking - past continuous verb ( present participle);
without stopping - gerund (present participle object of the preposition 'without'
15. stressed and defeated - adjectival phrase (past participles)
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Thank you. Transformation of sentence has been done in 2 videos.
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Simple Compound Complex
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Yes Ma'am sure I enjoy. Madam please explain to me regarding perfect participle, I'm still confusing where to use Being and where to use having so please help me with these. Thanks so much Madam
This video might help you.
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@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher 0:14 Are there two types of present participle?
If so, what is the difference? one takes
"Comma" while the other takes "And" please explain?
she opened the door, Rania saw all her friends.
= Opening the door, she saw all her friends.
She heard the news and fainted.
hearing the news, she fainted.
I heard the phone ring and picked it up.
Hearing the phone ring, I picked it up.
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Ma’am on what basis I would identify this sentence as participle ?
“Sleeping out of the blanket, I crept up to the bed”?
Identify the phrase (Sleeping out of the blanket). Does it have a verb? It is followed by a pronoun "I" isn't it? So it is not the subject of a verb. It is telling us more about the pronoun. I who had been sleeping out ..... It is a participle.
If it had been a gerund, the sentence would have been Sleeping out of the blanket is a common problem for me.
I have done a vidoe on how to tell the difference between a participle and gerund. Go to my playlist and find it.
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Mam please teach all 12 tenses.
And teach tips & tricks to use and find the tenses
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Are there two types of present participle?
If so, what is the difference? one takes
"Comma" while the other takes "And" please explain?
she opened the door, Rania saw all her friends.
= Opening the door, she saw all her friends.
She heard the news and fainted.
hearing the news, she fainted.
I heard the phone ring and picked it up.
Hearing the phone ring, I picked it up.
Present participles are words ening in -ing. They make
1. present continuous tense with the auxiliaries to be (is are was were will be / or modal + be ).
2. gerunds - ing word that is a noun (subject/object of verb or object of preposition)
3. adjectives coming before or after nouns to describe or modify them.
Your query of comma and and is not about participles but about how a participle makes a compound sentence into a simple one.
Opening the door, she saw her friends = simple sentence.
She opened the door and she saw her friends = compound sentence.
Remember both clauses joined by 'and' you must have its own subject and verb.
i heard the phone and picked it up is a simple sentence.
Hearing the phone, I picked it up = simple sentence.
I heard the phone and I picked it up is a compound sentence.
We feel it difficult because teachers who taught us it had no vast and voracious reading or listening exposure except the degree they hold.
There is no age to learn better. So don't lose heart.
Life is a walking shadow. Here walking is a gerund or participle?
Watch my video on Gerunds Participles, Infinitives first. It will be crystal clear.
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Sister we donor understand present, past participle in English ,we want English with Hindi please
Hari you don't understand because you are constantly learning English through Hindi. Koshish kijiye.
What kind of clauses ? And what they describing destroying ,causin,killing, g? A fire broke out in a Syrian refugee camp in eastern Lebanon on Wednesday, destroying 93 tents in the town of Arsal, causing the displacement of around 100 Syrian families.
A farm tractor trolley carrying Hindu pilgrims has overturned and fallen into a pond in northern India, killing 26 people, including children, say local officials
all of them are participles, hence they contribute to the phrase not the clause. You can expand them into adjectival clauses 'which destroyed', 'which caused' etc.
The same for carrying... and killing
has overturned has a helper and is therefore a verb.
Mom thanks a lot your quick response but i have one question please answer to me second sentence participle phrase for example e.g a farm tractor....didn't return to subject main verb but refers like place. killing 26 people = where they died 26 rather than which killed =killing
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher you said participle's actions always refers back to the subject i agree the frist sentence refers back to subject but the second sentence not to seem subject. why? It's like e.g ... , killing 26 people = where they died 26 people why didn't refer back to subject A farm tractor
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher An overnight rocket attack struck a hospital maternity ward in southern Ukraine, killing a newborn baby.
Killing may be refer to hospital rather than rocket
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