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Participle |
A word formed from a verb (e.g. going, gone, being, been) and used as an adjective (e.g. working woman, burned toast) or a noun (e.g. good breeding). In English, participles are also used to make compound verb forms (e.g. is going, has been) |
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Participle Phrase |
A group of words consisting of a participle and the modifier an/or nouns, pronouns or noun phrases that function as the direct objects, indirect objects, or complements of the action or state expressed in the participle. |
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A pronoun must agree in... |
Number with the noun to which it refers |
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Past Perfect Verb Tense |
When two verbs express actions that both happened in the past, the verb that expresses the action that happened first uses the past perfect tense |
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Present Perfect Verb Tense |
A verb that expresses an ongoing action that started in the past and is still occuring-uses the present perfect tense |
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Parallel Structure |
In a list of two or more things, each item in the list must be the same part of speech and use the same grammatical structure. |
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Parallel Structure can include a list of ____, ____, ____, or ____. |
Nouns, adjectives, propositional phrases, or verbs |