Welcome to this tutorial.
Today we're going to talk about the present participle.
Let's get started.
Now most commonly we use the present participle i n g.
That's an element in all continuous verb forms at present continuous the path continuous etc..
Now the auxiliary verb indicates the tense while the present participle remains unchanged.
Have a look.
The example over here I was playing computer games all night.
Now this sentence is in the past continuous was playing now when a verb ends in e we get rid of the
E and simply add i n g as in like liking right writing and when a four ends in a vowel plus consonant
with double the continent and then add i n g as in sit sitting swim swimming and when it Ferb ends in
i e we change the IEEE e into y and then add i n g as in ly Naing Di dying now the present participle
is used not only to form verb tenses it can also be used ay after verbs of movement and position for
example she went shopping after verb of movement and position went they came running towards me after
a verb of movement and position again came B after verbs of perception in the pattern of verb plus object
plus present participle to indicate the action being perceived as in the examples below.
We saw him mowing the lawn verb saw object him present participle moving lives heard someone singing
Verb Object present participle si after verbs of movement action or position to indicate parallel activity
in the examples below.
He said looking at these pedestrians doing two things at once.
July walks reading his newspaper
D as an adjective.
Have you heard of that amazing movie note that may think in this sentence is used as an adjective a
word describing the noun movie The family was trapped inside the burning barn again as an adjective
describing the noun barn e to explain the cause or reason the present participle is used instead of
a phrase starting with as since because happened look at the examples below.
Feeling hungry I made myself a sandwich meaning I made myself a sandwich because I was hungry knowing
that his roommate was coming James clean the living room meaning that James cleaned the living room
as he knew that his roommate was coming.