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    The document provides information about present and past participles. For present participles, it gives examples of sentences using verbs in the -ing form as both part of the verb and as an adjective. It notes that present participles are part of the verb when accompanied by a form of "to be" and are adjectives otherwise. For past participles, it provides examples of sentences using verbs in the -ed form as the past participle and notes that the simple past and past participle can be the same for many verbs ending in -ed but have different uses. It concludes that the -ed form can be a simple past, past participle, or adjective.

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    The document provides information about present and past participles. For present participles, it gives examples of sentences using verbs in the -ing form as both part of the verb and as an adjective. It notes that present participles are part of the verb when accompanied by a form of "to be" and are adjectives otherwise. For past participles, it provides examples of sentences using verbs in the -ed form as the past participle and notes that the simple past and past participle can be the same for many verbs ending in -ed but have different uses. It concludes that the -ed form can be a simple past, past participle, or adjective.

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    STRUCTURE 2

    SKILL 4: PRESENT PARTICIPLE


    SKILL 5: PAST PARTICIPLE
    MEETING 5
    TOEFL PREPARATION COURSE
    ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    HARA[AN BANGSA UNIVERSITY
    2020
    SKILL 4 : PRESENT PARTICIPLES
    Example:
    The film ____ appearing at the local
    theater is my favorite.
    (A) now
    (B) is
    (C) it
    (D) was
    ANSWER: A
    Humans living at high elevations __ to
    the lower level of oxygen in the air by
    producing more red blood corpuscles.

    (A) adjust
    (B) to adjust
    (C) the adjustment
    (D) adjusting
    ANSWER: A
    The radiation piercing the
    atmosphere __ of tanning or
    burning in humans

    (A)it is the cause


    (B) causing it
    (C)is the cause
    (D)the cause
    ANSWER: C
    On November 19, 1863, Abraham
    Lincoln, speaking from notes on an old
    __ the famous Gettysburg Address in
    only two minutes time.

    (A) gave the envelope


    (B) envelope giving
    (C) envelope, gave
    (D) gift of an envelope
    ANSWER: C
    Thomas Jefferson, __ a personally designed
    and constructed lap-top desk, wrote the
    Declaration of Independence in the summer
    of 1776.

    (A) he used
    (B) had used
    (C) the use of
    (D) using
    ANSWER: D
    CONCLUSION:
    PRESENT PARTICIPLES
    A present participle is the –ing form of the
    verb. The present participle can be (1) part
    of the verb or (2) an adjective. It is part of the
    verb when it is accompanied by some form of
    the verb be. It is an adjective when it is not
    accompanied by some form of the verb be.
    SKILL 4: PAST PARTICIPLES
    Example:
    The reactor core of a nuclear reactor
    is housed in a steel vessel ___ by a
    thick layer of concrete.
    (A) is surrounded
    (B) it surrounds
    (C) surrounds
    (D) surrounded
    ANSWER: D
    The tea plant, an evergreen shrub
    pruned to three to five feet high, __
    mild, semitropical climate in which to
    grow.

    (A) the need for


    (B) it needs
    (C) to need
    (D) needs a
    ANSWER: D
    The Statue of Liberty, completed in
    Paris in 1884, ___ in New York Harbor
    in 1886.

    (A) the unveiling


    (B) to unveil
    (C) it unveiled
    (D) was unveiled
    ANSWER: D
    The Mayflower Compact, signed by the
    Pilgrims upon their arrival in
    Massachusetts in 1620, __ their
    political and religious beliefs.

    (A) the statement of


    (B) stating
    (C) with a statement of
    (D) stated
    ANSWER: D
    CONCLUSION:
    PAST PARTICIPLES

    A past participle often ends in –ed, but there are also many
    irregular past participles. For many verbs, including –ed
    verbs, the simple past and the past participle are the same and
    can be easily confused. The –ed form of the verb can be (1)
    the simple past, (2) the past participle of a verb, or (3) an
    adjective.
    THANKS FOR LISTENING

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