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"Frightening" - participle?
In this sentence, what part of speech is 'frightening':
"Halloween can also be frightening for pets."
Is it a participle? Or is it acting as a verb?
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I can imagine him (being??) really angry
You could imagine sentence (a) (being??) uttered by someone consulting their diary and seeing that tomorrow's page is blank.
I can imagine him (being??) really angry.
I can't imagine elephants (...
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Which is the gerund and participle here?
Having forgotten him, he went away.
Is 'having' gerund or participle?
Is 'forgotten' gerund or participle?
And why?
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How can I tell what the past participle of a word is?
How can I tell what the past participle of something is- especially if the past participle is usually different?
Ex: Drink = have drunk, choose = had chosen, and bring = have brought. If these are all ...
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Usage of lie and lay
I'm preparing for some competitive exam and I'm reading an English grammar book, in that I encountered a test on lie and lay, but I do have a doubt on two questions, I don't know whether I'm right or ...
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Does this verb "lurk" in the sentence is used as a transitive verb?
sentence: Behind the invective lurked a vision of Europe as a
consortium of sovereign nations, free from politically correct elites
and pesky foreigners.
But the dictionary doesn't say about the ...
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have got phrase for Americans
I have heard that in American English, if I say "have got", the American would think that I am not educated as it should be "have gotten", yet I heard Americans said this in lots of movies. So is the ...
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The difference between get + pp and be + pp
I was talking about what happened to me a few years ago. When I said, "I got surprised to find out ....., or "The plant got damaged because of the typhoon." my sentences were corrected by a native ...
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