Participles

Participles 

and how we can use them as adjectives

Participles are not tenses!

They are verbal forms, they do NOT express time.

Multiple Choice

How many participles types exist?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Present participle

• It's the "-ing" form of the verb

• The gerund is a form of the present participle

• As an adjective, it can refer to function, e.g. washing machine

• As an adjective, it can create a certain emotion, e.g. an interesting movie

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence: "I'm really interest in Mark's books, they're ..."

• interested

• washing

• fascinating

• fascinated

Past participle

• In regular verbs, it's the "-ed" form

• Irregular verbs have unique past participle forms

• It's used in the perfect tenses (present, past, future)

• It's used in the passive voice

• As an adjective, it denotes feeling an emotion, e.g. I'm confused

Multiple Select

That movie was so scary!! I'm ...

• scary

• terrified

• scared

• terrifying

Open Ended

Use both participles in one sentence, for example: "I'm so scared, that story was terrifying!"