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paralyzed with horror we continued to watch the movie the rabbit hopping around the
field hopes to find something to eat in this lesson we're going to take a look
at participle phrases so stay tuned
if you want to improve on your writing skills this lesson will help you a lot
so why do we use participial phrases because they give color and action to a
sentence but first of all let me tell you that some students have difficulty
finding the difference between a clause and a phrase if there is a subject and a
verb with a predicate then is a clause if there is a noun but no verb and a
verb but not noun and does not have a predicate then it's a phrase so
participial phrases act as adjectives they modify the subject so a noun or a
pronoun of a sentence or even whole statements there are two types of
participle phrases past participle phrase one could be regular ending in -ed
or irregular which you know the irregular past participles and present
which end in -ing so let's look at the different formulas we have the
participle phrase which introduces the main clause of a statement and the
formula for that would be participle phrase plus comma plus the main clause
like my example paralyzed with horror comma we continued to watch the movie so
here we have paralyzed paralyzed here is the past participle phrase and is a
regular participle phrase right paralyzed with horror we continue to
watch the movie so paralyzed with horror who we we is the subject of the whole
statement let's take a look at the second example forgotten by its owner
the dog strayed across the road and wandered off so we have forgotten
forgotten is the irregular past participle of forget
so forgotten by its owner what or who the dog right so is modifying the dog
right here strayed across the road and wandered off so the second formula that I
have for you is that participle phrases can be placed at the end of a statement
in this case it describes the word right in front of it no punctuation used to
connect the two parts are needed so we have the main clause plus the participle
phrase and that's it we don't have a comma
we don't have punctuation here and the example is he was excited to see his
growing niece showing up on his doorstep so we have the participle phrase showing
up on his doorstep and showing right here is the present
participle phrase because it ends with -ing and describes his growing niece okay
and not the subject which is he now the third formula when a participle phrase
ends a main clause and modifies a word further up you will need a comma so the
main clause plus comma plus the participle phrase so the example is Jane
finally attended his high school reunion comma participating after persistent
requests from his classmates here we have a present participle phrase
participating and it modifies what it modifies Jim right so Jim finally
attended his high school reunion comma participating after persistent request
from his classmates so we need a comma right there the final formula is the
subject plus comma plus participle phrase plus comma main clause like my example the
rabbit comma hopping around the field comma hopes to find something to eat so
here we have hopping which is the present participle hopping around the field
present participle phrase and modifies the
rabbit right the subject of the whole statement one last thing I would like to
mention do not confuse the present participle phrase or the present
participle in this case with a gerund phrase a gerund phrase will always act
as a noun instead we saw that the present
participle acts as an adjective let's take a look at two examples eating too
much is not good for your health so here we have eating too much acting
as the noun or the subject of the whole sentence right and so is a gerund phrase
eating too much is not good for your health
let's take a look at the participle phrase example eating too much , he got
fat in just a month can you complete this sentence with a participle phrase
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