Questions tagged [participles]
Form of a verb used to modify a noun phrase.
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Nominalisation: gerund v present participle help
I’m having real difficulty identifying whether a word has been nominalised or not. Whether it’s acting as a noun or is a present particle. The instances in the text I’m working on are ambiguous (at ...
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Verb-ing after this phrase or clause "this is my first time"
Is the verb with '-ing' in the phrase or clause "this is my first time eating this" a gerund or a present participle verb?
I think now I see that "this" probably is or means "...
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Past Participial Relatives are the sourse of Participial Adjectives, why?
I came across this statement in a work (Ph.D. Dissertation, p.158) by Asier Alcázar Estela in which he assumes that the Past Participial Relatives are the source of the Participial Adjectives. And he ...