When discussing faulty parallelism in Merriam Webster's (1994) Dictionary of English Usage, they use the following sentence to illustrate faulty parallelism, but in doing so they refer to "taking too many drugs" as a participial phrase. Wouldn't the phrase actually be a gerund phrase since "t...
EXAMPLE #3 The marine biologist, diving near a reef, saw a shark. “diving” is the participle (Which biologist? The one diving.) “near a reef ” is the modifier This phrase describes the biologist. Subject and real verb: biologist saw PARTICIPLES & PARTICIPIAL PHRASES Twirling their canes...
This paper proposes an analysis of the internal structure of adjunct small clauses with a participial predicate in two Germanic languages, German and English. I will argue that participial adjuncts in these two languages have a similar structural basis, despite the alleged differences that have been...
Participial constructions may be tensed too: gerundivals (Basque, English (16th--21st c.), Sanskrit, Old Italian and Modern Romance); participial ... A Alcazar Estela - University of Southern California.$bLinguistics: Doctor of Philosophy. 被引量: 0发表: 2007年 PublisAed witk tAe approbation...
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1 A note on terminology: As is well known, the traditional terms 'present' and 'past' participles are inaccurate and therefore often replaced by terms such as the '-ing' (or 'gerund', which is equally controversial; see, e.g., Huddleston and Pullum 2002, 82f.) and "-en" participle...
Participles & Participial Phrases Participial A participle is a verb used as an adjective. There are two kinds of participles. The present participle ends in -ing. The past participle has the past form of the verb which would go with the verb have and would usually end in –ed OR it is...
PARTICIPLES & PARTICIPIAL PHRASES A peeled and sliced cucumber can be added to a garden salad. PRACTICE… The bike had a broken spoke. Her smiling face made everyone happy. The frightened child was crying loudly. The people were frightened by the growling dog. The squeaking wheel needs some ...