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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Present and past participles

What is the participle in this sentence?  Spiking the ball, she scored another point for her team."
  

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Anonymous What is the participle in this sentence? It's the verb with the -ing ending. spiking .

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous What is the participle in this sentence?
  • It's the verb with the -ing ending.
  • spiking .
  • Because of the ending -ing , it's a present participle.
  • CJ
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AnonymousWhat is the participle in this sentence?
It's the verb with the -ing ending. spiking.

Because of the ending -ing, it's a present participle.

CJ
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Hi

Scored is the participle.

present tense past tense pastparticiple

score scored have/has scored

Regards,

sri
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sreesriScored is the participle.
No. scored can be used as a participle, but it is not a participle in the example sentence. It is just the simple past of the main clause because it is not preceded by an auxiliary. If the sentence had has scored, scored would be a (past) participle.

CJ
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