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participle??

OK so i need a sample sentance that uses a participle, that has somethign to do with hockey.

i need 3 sentances, one with each of these:

participle

past participle

present participle

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  • Nice
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    There are only two types of participles: present (-ing) and past (-ed [regular verbs]; other endings [irregular verbs]). In addition, the participles may be a FINITE form of the verb, that is, "it is related to a subject in person and/or number, and which shows tense" (Richards: 106).

    (A) "They are sleepING" (here, the present participle is used with the verb "to be" to form the present progressive tense");

    (B) "she has ASKED a very good question" (it is used to form the perfect tenses) and "my heart was BROKEN" (it is used with "to be" to form the passive voice).

    However, both the present and the past participles are also NON-FINITE forms of a verb, that is, they are "not marked according to differences in the person or number of the subject, and have no tense" (Richards: 106).

    Both the infinitive (as in "He wants TO GO") and the participles ("we´re going SWIMMING"; "That SAID, Mr. X left the room in a hurry") are non-finites forms of verbs. The present participle "swimming" is used after the verb "go", which means "to engage in some activity, such as "swimming, fishing, studying, etc.", and the past participle "said" is used as an adjectival clauses (see examples below).

    Both the present and past participles are used as adjectives:

    (A) "This is no LAUGHING matter"

    (B) "He bought a BROKEN window for the price of a new one".

    Both are used as ADJECTIVAL CLAUSES, which should be placed as closely as possible to the nouns they refer to:

    After CROSSING the threshold, you´ll see his room on your right.

    SURPRISED at the compliment, she was speechless.

    As Stone & Bell point out (p. 159), "when a participle begins a sentence, it must modify the subject of the independent clause that follows. [...] Violations of this principle may produce the absurdities known as 'dangling participles':

    "After CROSSING the threshold, Brooke´s room is on the left."

    "Surprised at the compliment, her eyes sparkled with pleasure."

    Source(s): Richards, Jack, John Platt & Heidi Weber. Longman Dictionary of Applied Linguistics. England: Longman, 1987. Stone, Wilfred & J. G. Bell. Prose Style: a Handbook for Writers. N. Y. : McGraw Hill, 1972.
  • buz
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Participles are either past or present, so I'm not sure there's a sentence with just a 'participle'... but how about these for the other two, using the verb 'move':

    past participle - In 1976, the Kansas City Scouts hockey franchise was moved to Denver, Colorado.

    present participle - In 2006, the owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins said that moving the team to another city was a possibility if a new arena was not built in Pittsburgh.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

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