Rochester Institute of Technology

-ED/-ING Participles - Appropriate Participles

For each sentence below, choose the correct participle by clicking one of the two choices provided. Remember that the -ing participle is associated with the SOURCE and the -ed participle is associated ...
Los Angeles Times

Column: A Word, Please: Sometimes it’s hard to navigate past participles

Last night, Joe dreamt of Mary. Or would it be better to say that he dreamed of her? More important: How can you know for sure? Past participles confuse a lot of people. Take it from someone whose ...
The Star

Participles gone wrong

Continues from Part One and shows where participles and participial phrases can go wrong. MOST dictionaries show the three principal parts of a verb; for example, see (base form), saw (past tense), ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

-ED/-ING Participles - Analyzing Sentences

Each sentence below contains an emotional response verb or a participle derived from an emotional response verb. Decide which highlighted segment is the SOURCE of the emotional response and which is ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Love Among the Participles

I have a true story for you, about a rare participle that brought two hearts together and sparked a romance. You may find a tear welling up as you read this, despite the material about inflectional ...