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Jadel Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Participles

Could you please tell me the difference between "Participle clauses " and "Participle phrases"?
  

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Eaten by mosquitoes, we wished we had made a hotel, not campsite. Is this a participle clause or a participle phrase?

  • Eaten by mosquitoes, we wished we had made a hotel, not campsite.
  • Is this a participle clause or a participle phrase?
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Eaten by mosquitoes, we wished we had made a hotel, not campsite.
Is this a participle clause or a participle phrase?
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Hi

I'm willing to be corrected, but I think the phrase is usually longer than the clause. The clause is usually just participle + [adjective +] noun

- Seeing my distress, the old lady stopped to ask if I was OK

- Believing that the last bus had departed half an hour before, I took a taxi

Dave
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JadelCould you please tell me the difference between "Participle clauses " and "Participle phrases"?
I see him crossing the street every day.

Here, "him crossing" is a non-finite participle clause, an object of the transitive verb "see".

The ball is crossed by Smith, Ronaldo manages to make a clearance.

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JadelCould you please tell me the difference between "Participle clauses " and "Participle phrases"?
They are alternate names for the same thing. "participle phrase" is an older term; "participle clause" is a more recent term.

I'd guess that most people who learned grammar before 1990 use "phrase"; younger people have been taught "clause".

T

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