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• Tom isn’t
working today.
• “What were you
doing at 11.30?” “I was
watching television.”
Present participle can be an adjective:
• The man
walking down the street seems tired.
• This man is one of the
leading scholars of our Academy.
•
Running water is pure.
Participle phrases
can include a subject and
adverbs:
• We left him
sleeping.
• We watched him
running.
• We watched his
running.
•
Finding the course too difficult, Penny decided to drop it.
•
Lending Doris
the book, Joe told her she could keep it for a
week.
•
Hearing the news, I ran to tell it to my friend.
•
Knowing the
subject very well, the student was not afraid of the
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