English lesson fo the day: Advanced Present participles. Before we talk about what it means to dangle a participle, we have to answer the question What is a participle? It’s a tough question because participles have a few different jobs. Today, we’re only going to talk about their job that makes them look like adjectives. They tell you more about the noun that follows. Participles can be in the present tense or the past tense, and the present participle always ends with ing. For example, dream is a verb, and dreaming is its present participle. Speed is a verb, and speeding is its present participle. To use the verb, you could say, He will speed on the freeway. Speed is an action, a verb. Funded would be a past participle for the verb fund in the same manner. To use speeding as an adjective-like participle, you could say Follow that speeding car. Speeding acts something like an adjective modifying the noun car. It tells you what the car is doing (what kind of car it is) a speeding car
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