Continues from Part One and shows where participles and participial phrases can go wrong. MOST dictionaries show the three principal parts of a verb; for example, see (base form), saw (past tense ...

A participial phrase consists of a participle plus modifier(s), object(s), and/or complement(s)’. An earlier column discussed gerunds which, basically, are verbs with the ‘ing’ ending.

The present participle is a word formed from a verb. The English translation of the present participle ends in -ing. It can be used as a verb or as an adjective.