Participles
By: Alexis Sotelo
What is a participle?
• A participle is a word formed from a verb that
can function as part of a verb phrase.
Kinds of participles
• Present participle: A present participle is a
verb that ends with –ing.
• Past participle: A past participle is a verb that
ends with –ed.
Examples
• Present participle:
The soccer players played a soccer game
yesterday and won.
The criminal robbed a bank the past week.
• Past participle:
The girl is swimming in the pool.
The man is playing basketball with his friends.
What is a regular and irregular verb?
• Regular verbs: They always end in –ed.
• Irregular verbs: The ending of the word always
changes.
Regular verbs example.
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Verb: Help
Present: help(s)
Past: Helped
Past participle: Helped
Present participle: Helping
Irregular verbs example
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Verb: Bring
Present: bring(s)
Past: Brought
Present participle: Brought
Past participle: Bringing
What is a dangling participle?
Why are dangling participles bad?
• Dangling participles are tricky words or phrases
that change the meaning of a sentence.
• Dangling participles are bad because they could
change the meaning of your sentence and make
the sentence not make sense.
• Example:
Bad sentence- Lying out on the grass, the trees
were beautiful.
Good sentence- Lying out on the grass, I thought
the trees were beautiful.