Participles

Types

1. Present Participle
2. Past Participle

1. Present Participle

• Here running is come alone without any helping verb, so from this we got to know that ‘running’ is not a part of tense.
• If we use only’ run’ instead of ‘ running’ it doesn’t make any sense.
• So when v₁ + ing comes alone, without them sentence doesn’t make any sense is known as participle.
• If it in the present tense (is, are used), then the participle is known as Present Participle.
• Here participle is act as an adjective.

2. Past Participle

• Used for all perfect tense forms of a verb and in the passive voice.

Example: He hid the money in his recently gotten shirt.

Here gotten is past participle because:

• It acts as adjective because it adds the quality or describes about noun. (Here noun is shirt)
• No helping verb is used with ‘gotten’ so it cannot be a part of tense.
• It is third form of verb.