People training to become therapists
Rather, as we have come to realize in our experiences in Therapist Training Seminars, people training to become therapists initially rely primarily on a few distinctions in one or more of their input systems.
Hello, I learnt if a noun is modified by a past participle, it means the noun is in a passive voice; if noun is modified by a present participle, the noun is in the active voice.
I don't understand why it is "training to become therapists" is with present participle, but not past participel .
I think it should be "people trained to become therapists, but not people training to become therapists.
Could anyone explain the usage to me? Thanks.
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Rather, as we have come to realize in our experiences in Therapist Training Seminars, people training to become therapists initially rely primarily on a few distinctions in one or more of their input systems . The underlined clause is non-finite and thus tenseless, but the writer's use of the present tense verb "rely" in the matrix clause suggests that they are referring to present time, not past time. If the latter interpretation were intended, they would have used preterite "relied".
- Rather, as we have come to realize in our experiences in Therapist Training Seminars, people training to become therapists initially rely primarily on a few distinctions in one or more of their input systems .
- The underlined clause is non-finite and thus tenseless, but the writer's use of the present tense verb "rely" in the matrix clause suggests that they are referring to present time, not past time.
- If the latter interpretation were intended, they would have used preterite "relied".
- Gerund-participial clauses as post-head modifiers are active voice, as you say, while past-participials are passive.
- But note that "people being trained to become therapists" would be passive.
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Rather, as we have come to realize in our experiences in Therapist Training Seminars, people training to become therapists initially rely primarily on a few distinctions in one or more of their input systems.
The underlined clause is non-finite and thus tenseless, but the writer's use of the present ten
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