Participle Clauses for intermediate learners
To get to know participle clauses, first of all, you have to be familiar with the concept of participles and clauses separately.
What Are Participle Clauses?
Participle clauses are subordinate clauses that begin with a participle. These clauses do not have a specific tense and are therefore categorized as 'non-finite' clauses. In this lesson, we are going to learn more about them.
Participle Clauses: Types
In English, there are three different types of participle clauses:
In this lesson, we will discuss present participle and past participle clauses.
Present Participle Clauses
Present participle clauses are used in different contexts:
- When two actions take place at the same time:
As you can see, here two actions are taking place at the same time and we use a 'present participle clause' for one of them.
- When something is the reason for something else:
- When one thing is the result of another:
People are flooding the streets,
The water came up,
- When we want to give more information on a subject:
Past Participle Clauses
Past participle clauses are used in the following contexts:
- When we want to give a reason for something:
- When we want to show a conditional situation:
- When we want to give further information on the topic:
- When we want to shorten a passive clause:
Morty,
Mom,
Participle Clauses: Negation
Participle Clauses: Functions
Participle clauses can serve several grammatical functions in a sentence. Look at the list below:
Now, let us see some examples:
As an adverb
As a noun
My sister,
As an adjective
Warning!
Keep in mind that participle clauses are used when the subject of the subordinate clause is the same as that of the independent clause.
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Independent Clauses
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Restrictive clauses and phrases are necessary while non-restrictive clauses are not necessary for the sentence to have a meaningful thought.
If-clauses
If-clauses are used to express that the action of the main clause. There are three types of if-clauses. In this lesson, we will discuss them.
