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Re: Present Participle and Past Participle Tenses....

User_gary — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:37:38 GMT

Tanglish wrote:

Hi all,

I can easily indentified the present, past , future tenses, but I don't know anything about Present Participle and Past Participle Tenses. Could anyone explain me with example and when I have to use that tenses????

Thanks!!!!

[I don't understand exactly what you mean]

Here is some basics that might help you.

Verb has four forms :

prsent simple : Break, hold, make, drink, write

Past simple: Broke, held, made, drank, wrote

Past participle: broken, held, made, drunk, written

Present participle: breaking, holding, making, drinking, writing.

Note : sometimes `simple past' and `past participle' has same forms. e.g. held-held, made-made.

As I told you above, Present participle is `ing' form of verbs.

Present participle is used to write `present progressive', `present perfect progressive', `past progressive', `past perfect progressive, `future progressive', `future perfect progressive'.

E.g. I am reading books. [Here `reading' is present participle] [It is present progressive sentence]

I have been playing football for five hours. [Here `playing is present participle, `been' is past participle] [It is present perfect progressive sentence]

Past participle is used to write `perfect tenses' e.g. (Present perfect, present perfect progressive, past perfect, past perfect progressive, future perfect, future perfect progressive)

e.g. I have made this book. [here `made' is past participle] [It is present perfect sentence]

I have been asking questions for 7 hours. [here `been' is past participle, `asking' is present participle] [It is present perfect progressive sentence]

Re: `-ing form'

Philip — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:45:52 GMT

User_gary wrote:

I have learnt that (--`ing' form can be used in three forms)

I am playing football. [It is present progressive sentence]

Here `playing' is verb. So, it is `verb present participle' .

I am fond of swimming. [Here `swimming' is gerund]

We had a drink of the sparkling water. [Here `sparkling' is `adjective present participle']

So, I think `--ing' form can be used in three forms acting like (verb, adjective, noun).

Am I right?

Yes.

`-ing form'

User_gary — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:29:51 GMT

I have learnt that (--`ing' form can be used in three forms)

I am playing football. [It is present progressive sentence]

Here `playing' is verb. So, it is `verb present participle' .

I am fond of swimming. [Here `swimming' is gerund]

We had a drink of the sparkling water. [Here `sparkling' is `adjective present participle']

So, I think `--ing' form can be used in three forms acting like (verb, adjective, noun).

Am I right?