Free grammar lessons!

[Yiri]

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mmm nope i still kinda fail at gramer o-o

[Yiri]

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wait... if i have to do an esay or write a letter im going to be really mad at you >.>

[Necros140606]

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this is a pretty good thread for a foreign bumpkin like myself, guess i'll go ahead and verify my level of correctness.

[Darkbreezee]

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wow thanks to that dude o.o , i guess i shall keep going on learnin grammar o.ô xD, especially me cuz i'm german =D

[Seefu Sefirosu]

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What? I'm pretty sure you just invented the term "adjectival participle". "Risen" in the sentence "he is risen" is just a participle being used as an adjective. It's neither an "adjectival" participle nor a "verbal" participle; it's just a participle, regardless of its use in the sentence.

Secondly, what in the hell is wrong with "he has risen"? Abso-freakin'-lutely nothing. It's perfectly grammatical. It's even a straightforward conjugation:

present: he rises
past: he rose
present participle: he is rising
past participle: he has risen.

The "he is/has risen" question is merely an example about the multiple possible uses of a participle.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

Sorry for long-assed bump... however, hate to tell you:

Different types of participles:

Verbal
Adjectival
Adverbial

Those are pretty much it, but still.

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[Afrobean]

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Sorry for long-assed bump... however, hate to tell you:

Different types of participles:

Verbal
Adjectival
Adverbial

Those are pretty much it, but still.

Awww... he thinks he's people.

[GuidoHunter]

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Sorry for long-assed bump... however, hate to tell you:

Different types of participles:

Verbal
Adjectival
Adverbial

Those are pretty much it, but still.

Maybe in Russian or Hungarian, but this isn't a thread about linguistics; it's about English grammar.

We have present and past participles and the such, which act like verbs and adjectives, but we make no real distinction between verbal or adverbial participles.

My Polish Linguisitcs is weak, so I hadn't ever heard of those terms. Thanks for picking nits, though.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[dore]

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they look the same they just have different functions, and you have to be able to distinguish them to identify how they work in a given structure

[Seefu Sefirosu]

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Maybe in Russian or Hungarian, but this isn't a thread about linguistics; it's about English grammar.

We have present and past participles and the such, which act like verbs and adjectives, but we make no real distinction between verbal or adverbial participles.

My Polish Linguisitcs is weak, so I hadn't ever heard of those terms. Thanks for picking nits, though.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

Er... I was speaking of English grammar, not linguistics in general. Grammarians can and do make distinctions between different participial forms.

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[{Mystery}]

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Seriously, is this **** for real? o.0

[tha Guardians]

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Kill yourself {Mystery}.

[ohnoitsbonnie]

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Srs thread is srs!

[SwiftSlayer911]

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sooo... I hope you did not type all of that