ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
Grammar & Punctuation Videos 93 videos
This video explains the difference between affect and effect and provide tips for remembering which is which and when to use each one. If you suffe...
Want even more deets on Question Marks? Click here to review. Or take a look at our entire grammar section for all the goods.
Present/Past Participles 4211 Views
Share It!
Description:
Want even more deets on participles? Click here to review. Or take a look at our entire grammar section for all the goods.
Transcript
- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in present and past participles Allah
- 00:06
shmoop joe is employed as a lifeguard at the beach
- 00:09
when he isn't working on his tan or checking out
- 00:12
the ladies in their bathing suits He's perfecting his grasp
- 00:15
of present and past participles Because there's nothing as attractive
Full Transcript
- 00:19
as a man with a six pack and amazing grammar
- 00:22
Yeah well it's we think round here all right present
- 00:25
and past participles or two of the five ferb forms
- 00:28
that verbs khun take for example say we have the
- 00:31
verb swim The present participle of this verb is swimming
- 00:36
and the past participle is swamp We'll say we have
- 00:40
the verb laugh Well the president part of simple of
- 00:43
this herb is laughing and the past participle is laugh
- 00:47
Okay Now hopefully we've all caught on to the fact
- 00:49
that the present participles always end in ng i n
- 00:54
g that convenient or what We love english All right
- 00:58
Past participles air trickier While the past participles of regular
- 01:01
verbs and in e d irregular verbs can end in
- 01:06
all sorts of different ways For example the past participle
- 01:10
of the verb bring is brought and the past participle
- 01:14
Of the verb singh is sunk so just be aware
- 01:18
that there are no patterns to pick up on when
- 01:20
it comes to past participles and sometimes a lot of
- 01:23
curve balls in there right right We've mentioned that president
- 01:26
past participles make up two of the five verb forms
- 01:28
but part of symbols are used for more than just
- 01:30
action Not only can they appear is multipart verbs they
- 01:34
can also be used as a noun sor adjectives though
- 01:37
they have the scent joe is boiling beneath the hot
- 01:39
summer sun Well the word boiling is the present participle
- 01:44
and it's incorporated into a multipart ver by the auxiliary
- 01:46
verb is note that it doesn't matter whether the participle
- 01:50
in the multi part verb is in the present or
- 01:52
the past tense participles as verbs require auxiliary verbs so
- 01:59
we can take our sample Wilton's joe is boiling beneath
- 02:01
the hot summer sun and change it to read joe
- 02:04
was boiling beneath the hot summer sun or joe has
- 02:07
boiled beneath the hot summer sun or joe was boiled
- 02:11
by the hot summer sun was boiling has boiled and
- 02:15
was boiled are all combinations of auxiliary verbs like woz
- 02:19
And has And the president part of simple boiling or
- 02:23
the past participle boiled Got all that All right let's
- 02:27
look at what happens when an irregular verb wants a
- 02:29
piece of the action Their senses Joe is taking a
- 02:33
nap on the beach Taking is the present participle of
- 02:36
the verb take while taken is the past participle at
- 02:40
it So with this particular irregular verb we could change
- 02:43
our example to read Joe was taking a nap on
- 02:46
the beach or joe has taken a nap on the
- 02:49
beach No matter what combination of auxiliary verbs and present
- 02:52
past participles we use here napping on the beach is
- 02:55
a great way for a lifeguard to get fired Right
- 02:58
joe way could tell you that from personal experience that
- 03:01
they don't want to sleep Separate issue All right let's
- 03:04
move on How we use participles as now This only
- 03:08
applies to present participles which when used his now nes
- 03:11
are called jared Yeah it's Not that guy from subway
- 03:16
Jo enjoys whistling at the pretty girls near his lifeguard
- 03:18
station jared whistling is the direct object of the verb
- 03:22
enjoys trotting out into the surf to help the occasional
- 03:26
swimmer exhaust joe well here the jared trotting is the
- 03:30
subject of the verb exhausts Joe eat a slice of
- 03:33
pizza instead of helping the guy who lost his dog
- 03:37
We'll hear the parent helping is the direct object of
- 03:40
the proposition instead of and we're going to guess that
- 03:43
our lifeguard hasn't seen the movie jobs Well the dog
- 03:46
was the first to go missing joe Maybe there's a
- 03:48
shark in the water and you know all right Well
- 03:51
jones can appear all over the place as subjects director
- 03:55
in direct objects subject compliments and objects of proposition Part
- 04:01
of simple zzzz adjectives can also pop up anywhere either
- 04:05
in past or present Tense form Damn Say we have
- 04:09
the sense the mangled body was swept onto the beach
- 04:11
by the crashing waves Well the present participle crashing describes
- 04:16
the word wave while the past participle mangled describes the
- 04:19
word bodies here's another sentence Jo abandoned the beach when
- 04:23
the terrifying shark up here well the present participle terrifying
- 04:28
describes the word shark here's Another sense Fortunately two guys
- 04:32
showed up one with a gleaming oxygen tank the other
- 04:36
with a loaded gun Here the president part of simple
- 04:39
Gleaming describes the oxygen take while the past participle loaded
- 04:43
describes the word gun At least someone on this beach
- 04:46
is steven spielberg Action Alright whether they're being used is
- 04:51
down Two adjectives or parts of herb present past participles
- 04:54
work hard unlike joe who should have paid more attention
- 04:57
to what was going on in the water than to 00:05:00.02 --> [endTime] his beloved Action
Related Videos
This video explains the difference between affect and effect and provide tips for remembering which is which and when to use each one. If you suffe...
Want even more deets on Question Marks? Click here to review. Or take a look at our entire grammar section for all the goods.
Want even more deets on Your vs. You're? Click here to review. Or take a look at our entire grammar section for all the goods.
What’s the difference between its and it’s (spoiler alert: it’s more than just an apostrophe). This video covers the use of both of these wor...