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until now, i have been troubling about those classes of "participles" when/what/why do we use those? please give me some simple explanation about "participles"

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

hiroseclasses of "participles"

Classes:
There are only 2; present and past.
Participles are verb forms. They are listed in a good dictionary for each verb.

Formation:
The present participle is always regular. Add the suffix -ing to the base verb.
The past participle can be regular or irregular. For regular forms, add -ed to the base verb.
You have to memorize the irregular forms.

Usage
1. A participle can be part of a verb phrase, sometimes called the verb tenses. There are rules to make tenses.

The present participle is used in the continuous tenses. (I am running. He was jumping.)

The past participle is used in passive voice sentences and in the perfect tenses.
( He was arrested. He has sold his car. )

2. A participle can be in a non-finite clause. These clauses can modify nouns. They follow the noun.
The lady wearing the blue dress is my sister.
The boys playing football are having fun.
The house destroyed by the earthquake was more than 500 years old.

4. Some participles can be used as adjectives: It was a very interesting lecture. Her dress was very worn.

5. The present participle can be used as a noun.
Crying won't help.
He was accused of cheating.

Hirose · Answer

thanks for your help.

GPY · Answer

There is also the perfect participle: "having" + past participle, describing action completed. E.g.:

Having won the war, we now need to win the peace.

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