Question

everybody was exicited preparing the things for the trip. which participle is used here ??​

Answer 1

Answer:

To start, participles are words derived from verbs that can function as adjectives or as parts of verb phrases to create verb tenses.

Put simply, that means a participle will look like a verb (running) but may have a different role in the sentence: the running water. That participle is describing the water and performing the function of an adjective.

The two main types of participles are the present participle and the past participle.

Three types of participles

1. Past participle

For regular verbs, adding -ed to the base form creates the past participle. For example, the past participle of cook is cooked.

Past participles formed from irregular verbs may have endings like -en, -t, -d, and -n. Examples include swollen, burnt, hoped, and broken. Some past participles remain the same as the base forms of irregular verbs, like set and cut.

Past participles can also function as adjectives that modify nouns. For example:

 

In the sentence, “She placed the cut flowers in the vase,” the past participle cut modifies the noun flowers.

Past participles can also combine with the verb to be to create the passive forms of verbs. For example:

 

In the sentence, “He was taken to the store by his daughter,” the verb form was taken includes the past participle taken and was, which is the past tense of the verb to be.

2. Present participle

Adding -ing to the base form of a verb creates the present participle. For example, eat is the base form of the verb to eat. The present participle of eat is eating. Present participles always end in -ing.

Other examples of present participles include swimming, laughing, and playing.

The present participle can function as an adjective and modify nouns in sentences. For example:

 

In the sentence, “The winning athlete gets a trophy,” the present participle winning describes the noun athlete.

Present participles appear in progressive (or continuous) verb tenses, which show when a verb or action was/is in the process of happening. For example:

 

A sentence in the present progressive tense is: “She is sitting now.”

A sentence in past progressive tense is: “She was sitting there 10 minutes ago.”

A sentence in future progressive tense is: “She will be sitting at her desk in an hour.”

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