Questions tagged [present-participles]
The Present Participle is a Verb used as an Adjective. It is formed by adding the suffix -ing to the infinitive form of the Verb.
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I want to know the meaning of "a sentence with present participle"?
There are many people wishing to visit the temple.
If I rephrase this sentence like :—
There are many people who wish to visit the temple.
Or,
There are many people who are wishing to visit the ...
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Is "doing" in "I'm the first woman doing it" a gerund or A participle?
For all the time everybody has been alive in this country, when they thought of the prime minister, they thought of a man in a suit. I’m the first woman doing it; I’m the first person not to be that ...
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usage of 'Having to'
A sentence from a high school textbook :
'Originally, matches on Boxing Day were played against local rivals to avoid teams and their fans having to travel long distances after Christmas Day.'
What is ...
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have someone come or coming?
In the following, should "come" or "coming" be used? If only "come" is correct, why?
The first sentence comes from a news story relating to the oldest dog in the world.
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Confused about the functions of the V+ING form
I found an Arabic sentence in a text about corporate social responsibility and I translated it as:
Shouldering corporate social responsibility results in increasing profits and eliminating disputes ...
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a sound like rats scrabbling on the other side of the wall
a sound like rats scrabbling on the other side of the wall
'scrabbling' is a present participle or gerund?
In the aspects of structural grammar, both forms are correct.
My question arises from the ...
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Is "sitting" a participle, gerund, or adjective in the sentence, "I saw him sitting."
I have having trouble explaining to someone why, in a past tense sentence, the second verb is sometimes in the present tense. Here is the sentence:
I saw him sitting.
I know the sentence is ...
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"Has the bus arrived yet"? [closed]
"Yet" could mean "so far/by now" and "now". But if say "Has the bus arrived yet"? Does here "yet" mean so far/by now or now?
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Should " beginning" be followed by "with"?
In unit 80 of 'Advanced Grammar in Use', it says
In formal English we can also introduce a reason in a clause beginning for, in that, or less commonly, inasmuch as.
Shouldn't there be a preposition ...
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Until + Present Perfect + Noun + Verb
A friend and I are having a quarrel about the sentence:
"For operational reasons I am not able to downgrade as requested.
For this reason we ask you to take it for a (dud) until I've the access ...
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Does "-ing" always tell us about duration?
I saw two sentences in one of threads:
(1) Having finished our work, we went home.
(2) After finishing our work, we went home.
I have a question which was perhaps already answered in that thread but I ...
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eventuality of <your passport being stolen> <stealing (of) your passport>
oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com:
(1) In the eventuality of your passport being stolen, contact the embassy at once.
My variants:
(2) In the eventuality of stealing your passport, contact the embassy at ...
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When "hover" on button... or When hovering on button...?
Consider this question on Stackoverflow:
How to show tooltip image when hover on button pyqt5?
According to the grammar in a Taiwanese textbook, after the word "when" comes 'verb+ing' (...
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the present participle for two actions at the same time?
In order to add an '' ing '' after a comma in a sentence, the events in that sentence have to happen simultaneously? For example :
She dropped the gun, putting her hands in the air.
She dropped the ...
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What is 'crying' in 'She saw him crying.'
I am going through 'Infinitives' and 'Gerunds' on my own with the help of a grammar book written for Hindi speakers. The book focuses on common errors commited by Indian English-Speakers. There was an ...
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Relative clause and participle
I've never heard the following participial phrase, and it sounds unnatural to me:
Instead of
"There is no way that you are so tall."
one would write
"There is no way you being so ...
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Why are present participles used in this way? Do both passage convey the exact same meaning?
Extreme heat also depletes the oil’s additives sooner, altering
the oil’s chemistry and preventing it from lubricating, cooling
and protecting as designed."
This is the actual writing piece I ...
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Hanging on vs To hang on
[Error Correction ]
The right wall of my bedroom had nothing ( hanging on，except a clock) .
A. except a clock hanging
B. to be hanging on，except acloc k
C. to hang on，except a clock
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Using passive voise
Using passive verb in this sentence:
The injured man couldn’t walk and had to .....
The correct ending of the sentence according to the textbook is "be carried"
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Should I use comma or not in "She left my room, smiling"?
Suppose a girl left my room and while leaving, she was smiling. Then which of the following should I use?
1. She left my room smiling.
Or
2. She left my room, smiling.
Should I use comma ? Actually ...
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Does present participle without comma always modifies preceding noun or noun phrase?
When reading the newspaper, I came across this sentence:
Then, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) put out a detailed blog post
last week explaining how they believed Hermit was being used to target
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It made a pleasant change not having to work. (the identity of 'having')
It made a pleasant change not having to work.
What's the identity of 'having' here? Gerund or Present participle?
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relative pronouns, to infinitive, present participle. Are they interchangeable?
Armstrong was the first man who walked on the moon.
Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.
Armstrong was the first man walking on the moon.
Are they all the same? If not, what it the ...
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Only a few of them mention a block having specific shape
Myridon:
There is a large number of definitions of "block" here:
block - WordReference.com Dictionary of English
Only a few of them mention a block having specific shape.
Source: https://...
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is 'rolling' participle or adjective? [closed]
A rolling stone gathers no moss
Here is "rolling" an adjective or a present participle?
If it is both, which one is more accurate? If you have to choose one, which one would you choose? ...
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What is the function of 'having seen' in this sentence?
I am reading my text Why Do Friendships End? by Allison Hunter, there is a sentence confused me.
She referred to having seen the question in one of my articles,
Mystery of Friendship.
I don't know ...
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The vanishing glass vs The vanished glass
I was reading a grammar book by M. Swan about present and past participle that are used as adjectives when I came across this example: a vanished civilization. In his book Oxford Grammar, he explains ...
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Do these sentences mean the same: "I sat watching the rain" vs "I sat while I was watching the rain."
1- I sat watching the rain.
2- I sat while I was watching the rain.
In the beginning, I thought the two sentences were the same, 1st one being a shortened form the 2nd one.
However, after I learnt ...
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is it correct that Present participle phrase could be considered to be a sentence?
is "Buying kitchen chairs and eating in restaurants and carrying on" a complete sentence?
I think this sentence separated by common isn't a competition for sentence. but I often see this ...
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V-ing as noun modifier
Just about anyone living in the area at that time is at risk. （From CGEL, 2002, p. 162）
I understand it's equivalent to
Just about anyone who lived in the area at that time is at risk.
I wrote a ...
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What are complete sentences of elliptic phrases such as "Or being lied about..."?
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
Is the following their ...
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that running boy
a. Stop that running boy!
b. Stop that boy running!
You see a young boy running towards a street and you think he is going to try and cross it and put his life in danger. You shout to other people to ...
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Participle or Gerund when prepositions are present? [duplicate]
a) After having the meal, she went shopping.
b) On being told the party was cancelled, the girl burst into tears.
c) While walking along the street, Sandy answered.
Please, advise whether the ing-...
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Can we use participle clauses as adverbial modifiers?
Most of the time, participle clauses are used in sentences like the ones that I have written below (all of which feature present participles):
[1] Walking the dog, she breathed the fresh air.
[2] He ...
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participial construction: the driver dying instantly
Is the boldfaced participial construction used properly? If not, why?
The car crashed into the building, the driver dying instantly.
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the majority heading to Europe
Are the following sentences equivalent in meaning? How do (b) and (c) differ in usage?
(a) Many Syrian people have been driven out of the country and the majority headed to Europe.
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found my watch having disappeared
Is "having disappeared" correctly used in the following? If not, why?
Before I left my room this morning, I found my watch having disappeared from the desk.
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How to use "Having + V3" and "Having been + V3" at the beginning of sentences
I am struggling to learn how to use "Having" in many cases.
Through my reading on many sites, I understand that below are grammatically correct (if not kindly let me know):
Having seen my ...
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"remove" vs "removing"
I saw this sentence in a book:
So I move this into the intermediate data structure, removing it from the parameter list.
I want to know whether it is equivalent to this sentence:
So I move this ...
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Why doesn't this sound right?
All of these sound right:
I found her dressed on the ground.
I found her lying on the ground.
I found her knocked out on the ground.
I found her dead.
But this sounds wrong.
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What does a gerund mean following comma?
I'm trying to understand the meaning of these sentences but I can't. For example:
She hurried out the door, taking her coat with her.
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Can a present participle function adverbially?
She hit the ground running.
He went flying.
In these two examples, the present participles 'running' and 'flying' are clearly modifying their respective verbs. 'Running' complements 'hit', and '...
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Spent vs Spending
What is the difference between,
The three pie charts below show the changes in annual spent by a particular school in 1981, 1991 and 2001.
The three pie charts below show the changes in annual ...
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Why does the second clause of "Bob kicked the boy, injuring his left knee" use "injuring" instead of "injured"?
"Bob kicked the boy, injuring his left knee."
I don't understand why the clause uses present participle (injuring) instead of the past tense (injured) of the verb?
Does this sentence mean ...
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Their eyes looks identical or their eyes look identical? [closed]
Their eyes looks identical or their eyes look identical? Which one would be grammatically correct?
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they've got a cheek making you pay
How do you analyze the -ing phrase in the following? What role does it play in the sentence? What does it modify?
I think they've got a cheek making you pay to park the car.
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Verb-ing (present participle) + noun
Can verb-ing + noun mean something which is done?
For example, “drinking water.”
“Drinking water” means water which is drunk, not water which drinks something.
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Brian was released without charge this evening after being detained
Brian was released without charge this evening after being detained by police for about ten hours.
Brian was released without charge this evening, being detained by police for about ten hours.
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I don't understand sentence structure in the following example? Can anyone please break it down by parts of speech?
The Barcelona superstar scored the latest spectacular strike of his set-piece highlight reel this week, getting proceedings underway during the 2-1 win over Athletic Bilbao in La Liga.
It seems to me ...
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Need some help with the use of Present Participle
He said that marking exams without knowing students' names, and having teachers discuss and review the grades they give with others, would reduce any possible biases caused by personality.
In the ...
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