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Wysteria Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Confusion between verb and participle adjectives
Still, repelled and yet not heeding, he moved deeper into the pond.
The lower part of his body was all sunk in the hideous cold element.
He stood on the bank, breathing heavily.
And he hastened straight down, running over the wet, soddened fields, pushing through the hedges, down into the depression of callous, wintry obscurity.
I don't understand, why must the underlined words be considered as adjectives instead of verb?
The lower part of his body was all sunk in the hideous cold element.
He stood on the bank, breathing heavily.
And he hastened straight down, running over the wet, soddened fields, pushing through the hedges, down into the depression of callous, wintry obscurity.
I don't understand, why must the underlined words be considered as adjectives instead of verb?
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kindaichi000 I don't understand, why must the underlined words be considered as adjectives instead of verb? The main reason in the cases you have quoted is that they stand alone. There are no auxiliary verbs in front of them, for example, perhaps was .
- kindaichi000 I don't understand, why must the underlined words be considered as adjectives instead of verb?
- The main reason in the cases you have quoted is that they stand alone.
- There are no auxiliary verbs in front of them, for example, perhaps was .
- Here you have verb phrases, not just adjectives.
- He was repelled .
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kindaichi000I don't understand, why must the underlined words be considered as adjectives instead of verb?The main reason in the cases you have quoted is that they stand alone. There are no auxiliary verbs in front of them, for example, perhaps was.
Here you have verb phrases, not just adjectives.
He was repelled. He was b
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Is it a must to have auxiliary verbs? Aren't words like "breathing" and "pushing" an action? In that case, how about this sentence: While parking his car, he scratched someone's new BMW. The word "parking" is adjective or verb?
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kindaichi000Is it a must to have auxiliary verbs? Aren't words like "breathing" and "pushing" an action? In that case, how about this sentence: While parking his car, he scratched someone's new BMW. The word "parking" is adjective or verb?It has the qualities of both adjectives and verbs. Such a verb form is a participle. All the words you asked a
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Oh I see. Thanks! I was confused because this website http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ says that the words are all modifying participles. My lecturer forbids me to put participle as an asnwer in the exam. She wants one of the word classes instead.
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kindaichi000My lecturer forbids me to put participle as an asnwer in the exam. She wants one of the word classes instead.In that case, my guess is that she wants modifying participles to be called adjectives, but you had better ask her to be sure.
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