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Monday 3 October 2011
Present participle, past participle, perfect participle
1) present participle
The present participle is often used when we want to express an active action.In English we add -ing to the infinitive of the verb.
Use of the present participle
Progressive/ Continuous tense | He is reading a book. |
He was reading a book. | |
Gerund | Reading books is fun. |
He likes reading books. | |
Participle | Look at the reading boy. |
He came reading around the corner. | |
He sat reading in the corner. | |
I saw him reading. |
2-1) past participle
The present participle is often used when we want to express a passive action.In English we add -ed to the infinitive of regular verbs. We use the 3rd column of the table of the irregular verbs.
Use of the past participle
Perfect tenses | He has forgotten the pencil. |
He had forgotten the pencil. | |
Passive voice | A house is built. |
A house was built. | |
Participle | Look at the washed car. |
The car washed yesterday is blue. | |
He had his car washed. |
2-2) Compounds with the past participle
This combination is also known as perfect participle. It is used to form an active sentence with the past participle. There is a time gap between the actions.past participle and having
Having read the book the boy came out of the room. | One action happened after the other. |
The boy came reading out of the room. | Both actions happened at the same time. |
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