Participial phrases
There are two forms of participial phrases.
One is verb+ ing, the other one is verb+ ed.
For example:
Students planning to graduate in June must make an appointment with the registar.
Airport security will question anyone found with a suspicious object in their baggage.
Reduced adjective clauses
Adjective clauses
A pedestrian who had been hit by a speeding taxi was lying in the street.
Participial phrases
A pedestrian hit by a speeding taxi was lying in the street.
Position and punctuation of participial phrases
Restrictive
A woman hurrying to catch a bus tripped and fell.
Nonrestrictive
Teresa, hurrying to catch a bus, stumbled and fell.
Reduced adverb clauses
Sentence with adverb clause
When you enter a theater, you should
turn off your cell phone.
Sentence with –ing or –ed phrase
When entering a theater, you should turn
off your cell phone.
Participle Forms
-ing -ed
General:
no time indicated
talking talked
Perfect:
time before that of the main verb
having talked
Reason clauses
Because I wanted…
As we did not know…
Participial Phrases
Wanting…
Not knowing…
Here is a website for you to practice
http://homepage.mac.com/billgreene1/cgreene/exercise10.html
2 条评论:
Hi, Jason. I learnt several points about participial phases from your entry. However, I think there is still room for improvement. First, different aspects about participial phases can be categorized under subtitles or be numbered. It is easier and clearer. Besides, you may highlight the important items as well. Second, the exercises ought to be posted. On the whole, a good try! Keep it up.
Hi, zitai. it is Good to see your post because I really learnt something from it. Using participial phases is always a way to keep the sentances neaty.
Like what hu xuan said, through the content of your post is quite helpful, you can still make it clearer by categorizing and labeling different aspects and highlighting the important points. Anyway,thank you for providing these useful information about the participial phases. It is a big category of grammar, we can always find more to learn.
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