participles

-- _Improve these sentences by changing the participles into infinitives, and the infinitives into participles_: --

Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

For those learning English as a second language, dealing with subjects, objects, and present and past participles is advanced, and so is choosing when to use active versus passive.

Advanced English Grammar Lesson for ESL – Passive Voice « Esl Videos « Videos « Literacy News 2009

Násir are passive and active participles from the same root,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

In office it is like the second kind of participles, described in Lesson 37, and from many grammarians has received the same name -- some calling both _gerunds_, and others calling both _infinitives_.

Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

This is your classic dangling participle: the words discussing, sensitizing, and incorporating modify the subject, the more sensitive among us, but three other nouns stand between the participles and the subject.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

Each sentence begins with a standard verb phrase, embellished by a series of participles: tumbling, roiling, separating in the one; carrying, bouncing in the other.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

But if I had a choice between teaching somebody about dangling participles and having them be able to carry on a conversation in a language other than English, I think I would choose the latter, and so would most of us.

What's The Point Of A Degree In French? 2010

This is your classic dangling participle: the words discussing, sensitizing, and incorporating modify the subject, the more sensitive among us, but three other nouns stand between the participles and the subject.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

Singular they is of great help as a means of avoiding gender assignment when translating into English from many languages where not only inanimate nouns are gender sensitive, but all agreeing antecedents, verbs (past tense in Slavic languages), adjectives and participles also take syntactic forms of the corresponding gender.

Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar 2009

Each sentence begins with a standard verb phrase, embellished by a series of participles: tumbling, roiling, separating in the one; carrying, bouncing in the other.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011