Phrases with participles and gerunds are very common in many blogs on the internet and for beginners who is learning English is sometimes tricky to understand. I come down to these sites to challenge myself and understand what the writer is saying.
First let me breakdown what participles and gerunds mean:
Participles is a verb that is used to modify a noun, noun phrase and even verbs and verbs phrases.
Gerunds is a noun that is made by a verb and adding to it an "ing". For example, the gerund form of the verb write is "writing", run is "running" and so on.
When it comes to phrases with these active grammar, they are mixed with past tenses such as past continuous, past simple and past perfect; present tenses such as present simple, perfect and continuous.
Mixing these actives grammar, they end up being called past participles, present participles.
Past participles acts as an adjective and present participle gives background information.
Example of phrases past participle:
Get established, Desperately attempting, impressed, having been...
Examples of phrases present participle:
After hitting, growing up, on being, when telling...
I deal a lot to make sentences with these sample of phrases in order to manage these grammar segment and be fluid on reading blogs or sites that normally use these things and for sure with the help of learning English websites, it becomes fun and attractive to go back and forth to get it and move on the next article.
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