What Are Participles And How Do You Use Them?
There are various types of verbs in the English language with different names. You are going to learn all the types of Participles with detailed examples and additional rules.
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You may be unknown to participles, but by the end of this article you will know and learn about the rules and types of participles. We often feel confused for the selection of an appropriate action verb as per the tense. I am pretty sure that you wouldn’t have any problem to choose an accurate verb for your sentence.
Let’s learn the participle definition and examples first and then types.
A participle is a word which describes a type of action verbs with different forms according to time and tense to show any activity.
Examples :- Learn, learning, learnt are the different form of the same action verb.
In the last post we discussed the amazing rules about the verbs. There were some quite different types of rules about to + present particle. Here there will be some rules about the participle as well as Gerund.
There are 3 types of participle in English grammar.
The first part of participles is Present participle
Present participle is a type of verb which is used in progressive tense as well as an adjective and perform different activities for each function.
As an action verb
Doing, studying, dancing, reading, searching, speaking, learning, etc.
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Now I am reading the Wings of Fire book.
As an adjective
Confusing, interesting, amazing, mind blowing, burning, demanding etc.
These were present participle example with a specific use to help you out for using them grammatically correct in your daily conversation.
Past participle which is also known as 3 rdform of the verb is used in certain cases.
Prefect Tenses : we always use the past participle in the present, past, and the future tense as well as an adjective.
We have learned the amazing rules onpresent indefinite tense.
You can use this rule for an object to show somebody’s activity with a subject’s action.
She will have his partner to share her feelings.
My parents have me to take care of them.
Won’t + have + Object + Gerund : used to show a disapproval, disagreementor refusal.
This rules is used to demonstrate that the subject will not allow the object to do so, you can have it clearly with the help of examples.
She won’t have the branch head asking her irrelevant questions at the interview.
I won’t have them talking bad about their teacher.
I won’t have her being seen off easily with anyone else.
This is last type of infinitive wherein we will share interesting rules about the perfect infinitive rules with detailed explanation.
The perfect infinitive is used only in a certain case when an action expressed by an infinitive precedes the action of a finite verb or in other a perfect infinitive is used to express an action of an infinitive verb as a prior action to display a finite verb’s activity. Let’s look at the example for a clear view for it.
He planned to have completed this project before 12 o’ clock.
There are several verbs which you can use to make sentences using the perfect infinitive.
Deny, recollect, admit, confess, remember, claim, regret, recollect, seem, appear, report, believe, understand, say, allege, suspect, learn, require, suppose, etc.
My teacher still remembers to have sent me for an interview.
The terrorists denied to have killed any army personnel.
She seems to have made the mistake again.
My boss claimed to have given me a job to maintain attendance register.
A participle is used as participle clause with the togetherness of (Having + V3) is known as perfect participle. It is a kind of clause that has a participle on the place on a finite verb.
I hope that you are familiar with what is participle in english grammar with examples. If you still have any doubt in any of the above mentioned participles, kindly let us know through comments in the below.
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