Name: Everyday Grammar: Present Participles, Part 1
Uploaded: 2020-11-01T19:00:10.000Z
Duration: 2 min 4 s
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Have you learned any surprising fax recently?

I have, For example, I learned that insects make up 75% of the animal kingdom.

I also learned that honey does not spoil both.

The word surprising is an adjective that describes the noun fax adjectives that end an i N G.

Use a word form called a present participle.

Present participles have different functions in English Onley.

Some present participles can act as adjectives.

Thes adjectives generally describe the cause for someone's feelings.

For instance, the fax caused me to feel surprised.

The adjective boring is another good example.

Suppose some students are taking virtual classes.

The classes cause so much boredom that the students fall asleep.

You could say those boring classes put the students to sleep.

Notice that the adjective boring comes before the noun classes.

When participles act as adjectives, they appear in the same position in sentences as normal adjectives.

 After linking verbs and before announce, join us again soon for mawr on present participles. 