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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...

Thank you Grammar Geek for your help. @To All: I have another question and I don't want to post another topic so I will ask here, please help me out. How do you know when to use and when not to use the apostrophe " 's " to specify an object? And how do you use a noun to specify...

Much oblidged, Jim. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread, you have helped me much. To conclude this discussion that's likely to have worn members out by now, I'd end by highlighting the defining rule Jim presented in regards to this particular grammar point: ...

Thanks Philip. According to the grammar book, the answer to the #1 question is the adjective "happy". My problem is why not the verb "seem". I created the #2 question to mirror the question #1. But would the answer still be "happy", or the verb "act"...

Within 2 minutes of the previous post, I ran into this one: I saw him trying to open the trunk. Answer: trying to open the trunk is a participial phrase modifying the direct object him/to open the trunk is a noun infinitive phrase used as the direct object to the verbal trying I...

(Yay, I got the quote thing down!) Thanks for your time Avangi, I truly appreciate it. But I must say I'm just about as depressed as can be :(, because now I'm think I, as someone learning English as a 2nd language, am.....(pardon my languaged here) screwed. I don't thik I...

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...

Thanks Huevos for you enlightment. But could we, just for the sake of arguement, allow me to examine the merit of this grammar point: It says: There are 7 words that are "always" adjectives: articles "a", "an" and "the" and possessive pronouns...

Hmm... this seems to be another case of varying terminology. I have no objection to calling a participle an adjective, I'm just not used to that. Nor am I used to many other grammatical terms used here, like "a noun phrase". Don't get me wrong! I certainly don't mean...

Actually, infinitives are used in AmE as subjects. The location geographically or historically has nothing to do with it. But infinitives (and their complement(s), if any), taken together, can make noun phrases. To be absolutely precise, it is a noun phrase (NP) that must be the subject of a...