Exploring Present and Past Participles

The video tutorial explains present and past participles, two of the five verb forms. It covers how present participles end in 'ing' and are used in multipart verbs, nouns (gerunds), and adjectives. Past participles, which vary in form, are also discussed. Examples illustrate their use in sentences, highlighting their role as verbs, nouns, and adjectives.

What is the present participle of the verb 'swim'?

• swims

• swum

• swimming

• swam

Which of the following is the past participle of the verb 'laugh'?

• laugh

• laughs

• laughed

• laughing

What is the past participle of the irregular verb 'bring'?

• brang

• brought

• bringed

• brung

Which of the following sentences correctly uses a present participle?

• Joe is swimming beneath the hot summer sun.

• Joe has swim beneath the hot summer sun.

• Joe is swim beneath the hot summer sun.

• Joe was swum beneath the hot summer sun.

In the sentence 'Joe has taken a nap on the beach', what is 'taken'?

• Infinitive

• Gerund

• Past participle

• Present participle

What is the term for a present participle used as a noun?

• Infinitive

• Gerund

• Auxiliary verb

• Participle

In the sentence 'Joe enjoys whistling at the pretty girls', what is 'whistling'?

• Adjective

• Present participle

• Past participle

• Gerund

Which word is the gerund in the sentence 'Trotting out into the surf to help the occasional swimmer exhausts Joe'?

• Help

• Trotting

• Exhausts

• Surf

In the sentence 'The mangled body was swept onto the beach by the crashing wave', which word is a past participle?

• Swept

• Crashing

• Mangled

• Wave

In the sentence 'Joe abandoned the beach when the terrifying shark appeared', which word is a present participle?

• Beach

• Abandoned

• Terrifying

• Appeared