Combine the following pairs of sentences by using participles:
1.We met a girl.She was washing clothes
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Answer:
We met a man who was carrying a load of wood.
A gerund is a form of a verb used as a noun, whereas a participle is a form of verb used as an adjective or as a verb in conjunction with an auxiliary verb.
If we wish to emphasize that one action was before another then we can use a perfect participle.
From the given options, option B is correct as the word 'carrying' is a verb form used as an adjective to describe what a man was doing.
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Correct option is
B
We met a man who was carrying a load of wood.
A gerund is a form of a verb used as a noun, whereas a participle is a form of verb used as an adjective or as a verb in conjunction with an auxiliary verb.
If we wish to emphasize that one action was before another then we can use a perfect participle.
From the given options, option B is correct as the word 'carrying' is a verb form used as an adjective to describe what a man was doing.
The incorrect options are:
A - The word 'carried' here implies that the man once carried wood and wasn't doing so when the author met him.
C - The tense of the sentence has changed.
D - The word 'meeting' here is not used as a participle and just as a verb form.