Question

Verbs and adjectives from the chapter

Answer 1

Answer:

Verbs are words used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and form the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen etc; while Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. For example: This is a sweet mango. In this 'sweet' is modifying the word 'mango', hence it is an adjective.

Sometimes the present participle (verb plus ing) form of a verb becomes an adjective:

e.g.: A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Sometimes the past participle form of a verb becomes an adjective:

e.g.: I will accept a written apology.

Such adjectives are sometimes called participles or verbal adjectives.

Errors using participles: called Hanging Participle or Unattached Participle.

It can be a participle clause that is not related to the subject of the main clause.

For example, look at these two sentences:

Walking down the road, my hat flew off.

Coming out of the meeting, I suddenly felt very hungry.