Participal Phrases

[Byro]

Hey guys, i am a bit of a dummy when it comes to grammar (i am sure you will notice, feel free to pick me up on this) i am trying to learn a bit more about english, writing, and grammar so i thought this website would be helpful. (more grammar errors! hehe)

my query is this.

i am stuck at the moment on participal phrases, i just don't get it, it just doesn't click for me.

i have read everything i can on it, but i just seem to be further confused, has anyone got any simple ways of explaining it with some basic examples? i need some further guidance other than reading.

thank you.

the grammar dummy.

[PeterL]

Hey guys, i am a bit of a dummy when it comes to grammar (i am sure you will notice, feel free to pick me up on this) i am trying to learn a bit more about english, writing, and grammar so i thought this website would be helpful. (more grammar errors! hehe)

my query is this.

i am stuck at the moment on participal phrases, i just don't get it, it just doesn't click for me.

i have read everything i can on it, but i just seem to be further confused, has anyone got any simple ways of explaining it with some basic examples? i need some further guidance other than reading.


So what don't you get? Participial phrases act as adjectives and begin with a participial.

[Virgil]

This is a helpful web site: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/

There are others. Just search "Grammar".

[SheykAbdullah]

I am taking this down because, well, as Virgil pointed out it was totally irrelevant and an example of selective reading on my part, kind of embarrasing actually, but its discussion of prepositional phrases was quite good anyway. In any case, I'd be willing to help, but I would need to know, like PeterL, what you needed help with exactly. Paticiples are a lot more complicated than prepositions, which is maybe why I really wanted your question to be about prepositions. For example, do you have a problem identifying participles? Figuring out how they are used in a sentence?

[Virgil]

That is more or less the essence of prepositions in a nutshell. I'll hold off on the use of prepositions in the Transformational Grammar for now.

Yeah, but Sheyk, he's asking about participle phrases, not prepositional phrases.