Past Participles

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Past Participles

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Whats a Past Participle?
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Can You Find the Student Errors?

• Advance math
• Car gets broke.
• Car broked down
• Your dreamed car is over here.
• Inexperience buyers is poor.
• Teachers have helping us.

• Items are damage
• Car is purchase
• Do not realized
• Names to be wear
• Get prepare
• Need to be cover

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Here are the corrections

• Advanced math
• Car gets broken
• Car broke down
• Your dream car is over here.
• Inexperienced buyers is poor.
• Teachers have been helping us.

• 7. Items are damaged
• 8. Car is purchased
• 9. Do not realize
• 10. Names to be worn
• 11. Get prepared
• 12. Need to be covered

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How Are Present Participles Used?

• Present participles are used to reduce adjective
  clauses with active verbs
• George Bush, who became president in 2000, is the
  chief executive.
• George Bush, becoming president in 2000, is the
  chief executive.

• Can you fix all of the participial errors?
• Entered the class, the professor began lecturing.
• It was a bad day for Emilia, felt as she did
  about her hair style.
• Then Juan, knew her feelings, began laughing very
  loudly.

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How Present Participles Are Used

• Notice that each present participle phrase
  connects with and explains about a person.

• All of the participial errors are corrected
• Entering the class, the professor quickly began
  lecturing on participles.
• It was a bad day for Emilia, feeling as she did
  about her odd hair style.
• Then Juan, knowing her feelings, began laughing
  very loudly.

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Can You Use Participial Clauses?

• Past participles are used to reduce adjective
  clauses with passives.
• Is the clause below better or the phrase?
• Dalton State, which was started in 1967, is a
  four-year, public college.
• Dalton State, started in 1967, is a four-year
  public college.

• Reduce each clause to a phrase
• The president who was elected years ago will be
  replaced.
• Every student that scored 80 on the COMPASS
  laughed.
• Most of the teachers who began the college are
  now gone.
• The last exam which is almost forgotten was
  fairly difficult.

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Can You Use Participial Clauses?

• To reduce clauses to phrases, remove the subject
  and the verb.
• After all, a clause must have a subject and a
  verb, but a phrase cannot have both of them.

• Clauses are here reduced to mere phrases
• The president elected years ago will be replaced.
• Every student scoring 80 on the COMPASS laughed.
• Most of the teachers beginning the college are
  now gone.
• The last exam almost forgotten was fairly
  difficult.

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Can you select participles?

• The largest (known, knowing) animal is the blue
  whale.
• My assistant (worked, working) in this program is
  in the language lab.
• A watch is an instrument (used, using) to measure
  the time.
• (Made, making) in 2000, this building is several
  years old.
• Helen left the class, (thought, thinking) that
  her best friend had not supported her at all.

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Can you use participles?

• Have you (see) ___ my car keys?
• No, where have you (lay) ___ them?
• I havent (find) ___ them yet!
• Well, have you (try) __ the table?
• Oh, have you (drive) ___ my car?
• Sure, I have (test) ___ it out lots of times!
• How has it (be) __ running for you.
• The car has (run) __ very well.

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Here are the participles

• Have you seen my car keys?
• No, where have you laid them?
• I havent found them yet!
• Well, have you tried the table?
• Oh, have you driven my car?
• Sure, I have tested it out lots of times!
• How has it been running for you.
• The car has run very well.

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Can you use irregular participles?

• Its too early Juan has not (awake) __.
• All night long, the wind has (blow) __.
• Theres no more time have you (chose) __?
• Look at the picture that she has (draw) __.
• Ice skating? Have you already (fall) __?
• She has her money and it is now (hid) __.
• Ed is on the sofa he has (lie) __ down.
• Wake up the sun has already (rise) __.
• A thief entered and the cash is (steal) __.
• How many outfits are (wear) __ by stars?