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Soche123 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

how to use participle?

how to use participle?
  

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Hi Soche123; This could be a very long answer. Which kind of participle are you asking about - the present participle or the past participle?

  • Hi Soche123; This could be a very long answer.
  • Which kind of participle are you asking about - the present participle or the past participle?
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Hi Soche123;

This could be a very long answer.
Which kind of participle are you asking about - the present participle or the past participle?
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both the present and the past participle. thanks I need help badly studying these-.-
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Hello again, soche. We are happy to have you as a new member, but you do not seem to be trying very hard to find answers yourself. It is very time-consuming for us to write out again the general explanations that already exist on the internet. Have you googled either phrase?—

present participle:
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well, sorry sir, why do you keep referring to links? After all this forum is to ask questions that you have trouble with? We know we can google these things but then what's use of this forum then? I'm here to learn these things myself. As I said before I'm a beginner. I'm not a native English speaker so studying these things from wikipedia etc becomes hard for me. I want to know this in simple la
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Forums are here to help you when you have exhausted your own resources. You have not even tapped yours yet. Many of the references in those links are geared to your level (which does not seem to be that of a beginner, judging from your message).
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The Forum is not really good for extremely broad questions such as yours. A textbook is much better for learning.
If you have trouble understanding a specific example in your textbook, then post it here and we can help you.

Below is a link to a good resource on participles (and participial phrases) used as adjectives.

Of course participles can be words forming a verb
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ok thanks a lot

I have read above link and one of the example it said
Shaken, he walked away from the wrecked car.

Can I use shaking the present participle instead of "shaken" the past participle?thanks
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Can I use shaking the present participle instead of "shaken" the past participle?thanks

Yes. It means that he was shaking (trembling) at the same time he was walking.
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Right! While 'shaken' (the past participle) means that the accident shook him before.

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