To identify the funtion of infinitve, participle and gerund in the following sentences. As I am not good at participle, I am afraid I will give the wrong answer to my son. Can anyone help.
1. Provisioned with water and fresh fruit and disenchanted with the dreams some of us had been foolishly harbouring, we set sail for Cape Town where I hoped things would improve.
Provisioned - past participle in adverbial phrase of circumstance
disenchanted - past particple in adverbial phrase of circumstance
been - past particple , part of past perfect verb " had been"
harbouring - peresent particple, part of past perfect progresseive verb " had been harbouring"
impprove - infinitive, object complement of "things"
2. In this town, the Griqua people are astonishing and it puzzles me where they had learned such sophisticated arts in a community so devoted to worshipping Jehovah.
astonishing - present participle, adjectival modifying the Griqua perople
learned - past participle, part of past perfect verb " had learned"
sophisticated - past participle, adjectival modifying arts
devoted - past participle in adverbial phrase of manner
worshipping - gerund, moifying Jehovah
3. Soon the rich and rare cargo of ostrich plumes and rhinoceros horns was flowing aboard and my days were much taken up with writing these things into manifests and consulting Bills of Lading.
flowing - present participle, part of past progresseive verb "were flowing"
taken - past participle, past of passive verb "were taken"
writing - present participle in adverbial phrase of circumstance
consulting - present participle in adverbial phrase of circumstance
lading - gerund modifying bills
4. There came a time when the last bale of cargo had been stowed away and the last official bribed.
stowed - part participle, part of verb in past passive aspect "had been stowed"
bribed - past participle as adjectival modifying the last official
5. Clearing Cape Town when headed for the East is, or was in those days, something of a dangerous precedent, not as dramatic as rounding Cape Horn but still dangerous.
Ckearing - present participle in adverbial phrase of circumstance
headed - past participle in adverbial phrase of time
something - gernund as a nouth with plural meaning
rounding - present participle in adverbial phrase of cicrumstance
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