For questions about the form of a verb that usually ends in "ed" or "ing" and is used as an adjective.
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Position for a participle adjective
Regarding participle adjectives (amazing, amazed, sending, sent..), when the verb is a phrasal verb (fill up/in/out), where should it be placed as an adjective?
The filled out form will be sent to the store.
The form filled out will be sent to the…
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Why not 'heading' in "Where are you headed?"
Why do people say:
Where are you headed?
To me, it should be:
Where are you heading?
because you usually say "We are heading out" or "I was heading north".
The initial sentence looks to me like passive voice.
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What is the subject in "While nestled inside that divine sanctuary"?
While nestled inside that divine sanctuary, words were my window to the world outside my perch in Columbus, Ohio. (Benita Porter, The Power of Words)
It seems like while-clause is a participial clause (a dangling participial one). Is it? If so, is…
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given what must happen before they are acted upon
“Has your mother made a will?” Strike asked.
Bristow looked startled.
“I—yes, I believe so.”
“May I ask who her legatees are?”
“I haven’t seen it,” said Bristow, a little stiffly. “How is…
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How can 'scam' be an agent?
Fraud, forgery, a financial planning scam at Australia's biggest bank that cost customers millions and a timid corporate watchdog that failed to act: These are some of the charges a powerful Senate committee has levelled against the Commonwealth…
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A question related to participles
There is given a pair of sentences and I have to join the two sentences into one using
a participle.
We started early. We arrived at noon
Answer was
Starting/having started early, we arrived at noon.
But can I say
We starting early, arrived at…
user93387
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A reading man/a man reading
1 I saw a reading man in the room.
2 I saw a man reading in the room.
How do they differ? Does the first one mean that the person seen is always reading and the second means that the man was reading only then?
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"Many of them his friends" or "many of them being his friends"
Someone threw a birthday party with several dozen guests before. When you are describing the guests, I think you can use these sentences:
Dozens of people came to his birthday party. Many of them were his
friends.
My question is, when you want to…
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Do dangling participles apply to "it clause" too?
I was wondering whether dangling participles apply to an “it clause” too. For example, does the following sentence have a dangling participle at the beginning of the sentence or is it grammatically correct?
Excluding serious accidents, it is likely…
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The songs (playing / played) in the background were composed by Bob
a. The songs playing in the background were composed by Bob.
b. The songs played in the bacground were composed by Bob.
I want to know which sentence is correct. Some say 'playing' is right but some say 'played' is right (we are not natives).…
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Transformation of the object clause into "ing form"
1. I believe that John will be acquitted in the end.
2. I believe in John's being acquitted in the end.
I would like to ask whether I can change the sentence 1 into the sentence 2. I am not sure if the second sentence with "ing form" is formulated…
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Help with Participle constructions, such as "the discussed problems" vs. "the problems discussed"
I really need your help with this. I get extremely frustrated when I don’t know how to know the right use of these cases. Please extend your help by providing me any websites or tips to fully understand and explore this.
1- The discussed problems…
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What is the subject in this sentence?
The Colosseum or coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and…
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the usage of "rest"
I know "It's impolite to sit down with your elbows rested on the table." is correct, which just sounds pretty well to me, but I had also seen some sentence like "AUDREY is sitting on the floor of her room with her back resting against her bed."…
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Who have done the act laughing in the sentence "The girl came to her mother laughing"?
The girl came to her mother laughing.
Here who have done the act laughing? I mean whether it the girl or mother
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