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Person And Number | |
Participle | |
Gerund | |
Past Tense and Past Participle |
Person refers to the relationship that an author has with the text that he or she writes, and with the reader of that text. English has three persons (first, second, and third).
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(a) I read.
(b) You read.
(c) He reads.
Thus, we see that the verb takes the same Person and its subject or, that the verb agrees with its subject is Person.
There are two numbers: singular and plural. The table below separates pronouns according to number. You may notice that the second person is the same for both singular and plural: you.
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(a) He listens
(b) They listen
This is because of the difference in Number of the subjects.
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Thus, we see that the verb takes the same Number as its subject or, that the verb agrees with its subject in Number.
A participle is that form of the verb which partakes of the nature both of a verb and of an adjective.
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There are the two kinds of participle:
1. Present Participles are those which ends in–ing and represents an action as going on or incomplete or imperfect.
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Past Participles are those forms of verbs which represents a completed action or state of the thing spoken of.
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Note: The past participle usually ends in -ed,-d,-t, -en, -n etc.
The participles are used as simple qualifying adjectives in front of a noun and are thus called Participial Adjectives.
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Thus, we recall that:
A Gerund is that form of the verb which ends in -ing and has the force of a Noun and a Verb.
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In these sentences, the gerund, like a noun, is the subject of a verb, but like a verb, it also takes an object, thus, showing it has also the force of a verb.
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The Gerund has the force of a noun and a verb. It is thus a Verbal-Noun and may be used as:
1. Subject of a verb
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2. Object of a transitive verb
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3. Object of a preposition
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4. Complement of a verb
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5. Absolutely
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Past Participle forms like - bounden, clove, drunken, gotten, graven, hewn, hidden, molten, shorn, shrunken, stricken and sunken etc., are used as Adjectives only.
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