Sunday, January 6, 2013

Present participle, past participle, perfect participle

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Participles, Participle constructions

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Use 1 to shorten relative clauses 2 to make one sentence out of two 3 after verbs of "perception" (e.g. see, watch, hear, listen to, smell, feel) 4 after verbs of "rest" and "movement" (e.g. run, go, come, stay, stand, lie, sit) 5 after the verb have 6 instead of a subordinate...

The comparison of adverbs in English

There are three forms: - positive - comparative - superlative A - Comparison with -er/-est hard - harder - (the) hardest We use -er/-est with the following adverbs: 1) all adverbs with one syllable positive comperative superlative fast faster fastest high higher highest 1) the adverb early positive comperative superlative early earlier earliest B - Comparison with more - most adverbs ending on -ly (except: early) positive ...