Question

Underline the Participle Adjectives in the following sentences(one is done for you):
The policemen caught the running thief.
(a) The injured man was taken to the hospital.
(b) The tired child soon fell asleep.
(c) People mistook the shining stone as diamond.​

Answer 1

Answer: The required participle adjectives are:

(a) injured, (b) tired, (c) shining

In the sentence 'The policemen caught the running thief.' , 'running' is the present participle.

Explanation: In sentence (a) injured is the past participle as well as qualify the noun 'man'.

In sentence (b) tired is the past participle as well as qualify the noun 'child'.

In sentence (c) shining is the present participle as well as qualify the noun 'stone'.

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Answer 2

Participle adjective

Adjectives are words that describes nouns and the participle adjectives creates the tenses for the verb.

For example: building a house, here the word building is a participle.

There are two types of participle adjectives:

1. past participle : when the adjective is in past tense. It ends with "ed" or "en"
2. present participle : when the word describes an action happening in the present. It ends with "ing"

• The policemen caught the running thief.

Here the word running is the present participle.

(a)The injured man was taken to the hospital.

The word injured is the past participle.

(b)The tired child soon fell asleep

The word tired is a past participle.

(c)people mistook the shining stone as diamond.

here the word shining is a present participle.

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