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Participles

Participles. By: Alexis Sotelo. What is a participle?. A participle is a word formed from a verb that can function as part of a verb phrase. Kinds of participles. Present participle: A present participle is a verb that ends with –ing.

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Participles

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  1. Participles By: Alexis Sotelo

  2. What is a participle? • A participle is a word formed from a verb that can function as part of a verb phrase.

  3. Kinds of participles • Present participle: A present participle is a verb that ends with –ing. • Past participle: A past participle is a verb that ends with –ed.

  4. Examples • Present participle: The soccer players played a soccer game yesterday and won. The criminal robbed a bank the past week. • Past participle: The girl is swimming in the pool. The man is playing basketball with his friends.

  5. What is a regular and irregular verb? • Regular verbs: They always end in –ed. • Irregular verbs: The ending of the word always changes.

  6. Regular verbs example. • Verb: Help • Present: help(s) • Past: Helped • Past participle: Helped • Present participle: Helping

  7. Irregular verbs example • Verb: Bring • Present: bring(s) • Past: Brought • Present participle: Brought • Past participle: Bringing

  8. What is a dangling participle?Why are dangling participles bad? • Dangling participles are tricky words or phrases that change the meaning of a sentence. • Dangling participles are bad because they could change the meaning of your sentence and make the sentence not make sense. • Example: Bad sentence- Lying out on the grass, the trees were beautiful. Good sentence- Lying out on the grass, I thought the trees were beautiful.

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