Participles

-- _Improve these sentences by changing the participles into infinitives, and the infinitives into participles_: -- ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

For those learning English as a second language, dealing with subjects, objects, and present and past participles is advanced, and so is choosing when to use active versus passive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Násir are passive and active participles from the same root, ❋ Unknown (2006)

In office it is like the second kind of participles, described in Lesson 37, and from many grammarians has received the same name -- some calling both _gerunds_, and others calling both _infinitives_. ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

Each sentence begins with a standard verb phrase, embellished by a series of participles: tumbling, roiling, separating in the one; carrying, bouncing in the other. ❋ Jack Cashill (2011)

What about all the past participles that evidently are not being taught in school? ❋ Unknown (2010)

- Intermediate drills for improving skills with parallel structure, mood, correct shifting errors & dangling participles ❋ Unknown (2009)

I, too, have always liked such vowel-shifted past participles: fed (for feed) and read (for read), etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But if I had a choice between teaching somebody about dangling participles and having them be able to carry on a conversation in a language other than English, I think I would choose the latter, and so would most of us. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Am I wrong or does Tom Torrigila keep using dangling participles? ❋ Unknown (2010)

As Swan (2005) notes: “The distinction between ‘participles’ and ‘gerunds’ is not always clear-cut, and it can sometimes be difficut to decide which term to use” (p. 270). ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is your classic dangling participle: the words discussing, sensitizing, and incorporating modify the subject, the more sensitive among us, but three other nouns stand between the participles and the subject. ❋ Jack Cashill (2011)

Singular they is of great help as a means of avoiding gender assignment when translating into English from many languages where not only inanimate nouns are gender sensitive, but all agreeing antecedents, verbs (past tense in Slavic languages), adjectives and participles also take syntactic forms of the corresponding gender. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Consider these examples (from the British National Corpus) and you tell me which are gerunds and which are participles: ❋ Unknown (2010)

To shift the discussion just a bit, whether or not we say present participles and gerunds should be differentiated as distinct parts of speech, it still seems to me that except for in cases of a present participle in the slot of attributive adjective (ex/The steering wheel of my car is blue) gerunds and present participles take objects (I like driving my car). ❋ Unknown (2010)

She says that she will take ([Participle]) the dog to the [vet]. The [Governing] verb is "to say" the [participle] is "to take" ❋ Poh-2805 (2008)

X: What is a [participle]? Y: [I don’t know], I [failed] English. ❋ Muzzy101 (2022)

"Did you see [that dude's] [dangling participle]?" "Yeah." "[What kind] of church is this again?" ❋ Bleepbloopblorpblip (2012)

Correct: That car is [broken down]. Incorrect: That car is broke down Correct: That couch is all [torn up]. Incorrect: That couch is all [tore up]. Correct: I am so hungry because I haven't eaten all day. Incorrect: I am so hungry because I haven't ate all day. Correct: Have you gone to the store yet dear? Incorrect: Have you went to the store yet dear. ❋ Wimpster (2005)

A [dangling participle] is the "[straps]" that have the tendency to always get caught on another object when you least expect it to, often resulting in a humurous but humiliating [yank] in the opposite direction of travel (i.e.: getting out of a car, getting up from a desk, etc.). ❋ S.J. Friedman (2005)