Present Participle as the post-modifier
**Present Participle as the
post-modifier: (attributive use)
1. The student reading ‘The daily Star’ is brilliant.
Present Participle: reading. And it modifies the noun student.
1. The student reading ‘The daily Star’ is brilliant.
Present Participle: reading. And it modifies the noun student.
2. Do you know any of these men sitting behind us?
Present Participle: sitting. And it modifies the noun men.
Present Participle: sitting. And it modifies the noun men.
** Now, you have to find out
the present participle in the following sentences and explain which word it
modifies in the sentence:
3. Do you know the man sitting in front of us?
4. The boy working in the library is a student of English department
5. The man teaching geography in this school is Karim’s father.
6. We saw him running.
7. I found the boy standing at the gate.
8. He saw something burning.
9. I saw Salma getting out of the car.
10. Did you see Kamal talking to the police?
3. Do you know the man sitting in front of us?
4. The boy working in the library is a student of English department
5. The man teaching geography in this school is Karim’s father.
6. We saw him running.
7. I found the boy standing at the gate.
8. He saw something burning.
9. I saw Salma getting out of the car.
10. Did you see Kamal talking to the police?
11. I saw getting on a bus
yesterday.
12. They Shelly getting out of a
car.
13. We have seen Rana talking to
his friend, Bashir.
14. They saw a boy
running along the street.
15. We saw a boy
climbing a mango tree in your garden.
16. I have seen
Rahim going to school.
17. I saw beggar
standing at the door.
18. He saw a cow
grassing in the field.
19. I saw bus
standing at the station.
20. I saw saw Karim
hiring a rickshaw to go home.
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