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Present participles is just the ing form of the ver. And participles are part of verbals. In the english Language there are three verbals. The gerunds, the infinitives and the PARTICIPLES. THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF PARTICIPLES 1. PAST PARTICIPLES AND 2. PRESENT PARTISIPLES THE PAST PARTICIPLE ENDS...

Ellisa: This is a very long passage, and your other post seems to be even longer. The editor at this web site makes it difficult to make corrections to long passages. Also, many teachers do not want to devote a long time working on a single post. If you post only one paragraph at a time, then...

This is a very scholarly work dealing with the complexities and analysis of Grammar, with a special section devoted to Gerunds, participles, and infinitive phrases. If you want to read the entire work, it is online. A link to the entire chapter follows. This section is on determining if an -ing...

Hmm, CJ, very interesting... I know this is really awkward and convoluted , but the phrase does refer to the employer. Re-written as a full dependent clause, the relatiohship is a bit clearer. Making workers feel undervalued, the employer does not listen closely to their suggestions. (this...

CJ: In the "classical" grammar I learned soon after the emergence of modern English , "making workers feel undervalued" would be analyzed as a participial phrase. Most of the English grammar reference web sites I have used still keep to the "classical" grammar...

You have made some very complex sentences, so it is not easy to explain without a lot of detail. Here is my analysis of the grammar in the second sentence. I am not an expert in grammar, so I invite other members of the forum to comment. It (pronoun, subject) is (main verb) probably (adverb,...

Grammar is a descriptive process. Linguists look at a language and describe how it works. However some Linguists describe things differently to others. The end result is usually the same, but the way they organise it, and what all the parts are call varies. eg some Linguists say pronouns are a...

Generally, what follows the "of" in a double possessive will be definite and human, not otherwise, so we would say "a friend of my uncle's" but not "a friend of the museum's ." What precedes the "of" is usually indefinite ( a friend, not the best...

I would consider speech incorrectly used in your sentence and in the terminology I am familiar with the term "verbal noun" only refers to nouns derived from verbs by adding ing . If you want to use the term in another sense, I have absolutely nothing against it. I am not in the least...

Hi, Sentence: You never know what is going to happen to you, do you? Begin the sentence with: "One" One never knows what is going to happen to him/her , does one? No. A gerund is like a noun, eg Swimming is fun. eg Completing the assignment was difficult. Best wishes, Clive