2018-06-13 Grammar: participle modifiers

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 152 exercise 3 - Write the adjectives in the correct order.
2 really useful
3 bright purple flannel
4 pretty new French
5 original plastic
6 incredibly ugly, useless antique
7 plenty of expensive brand-new brightly colored European
8  dark little overcrowded bedroom
9 nice handmade Italian
10 nice new
11 poor old
12 terrible, frightening (2 opinions can go in either order, with a comma or “and” between)
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Size and age can sometimes be opinions, which is why they’re first in the order of adjectives.
Some “adjectives” can be a fundamental part of the noun, so they go last:
	American black bear (“black bear” is a type of bear, and this one is from America)
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Many adjectives are verb participles.
past participle: eaten, stolen, bored, forgotten (“verb 3”)
present participle: eating, stealing, boring, forgetting (-ing form)
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p. 155 focus 4
present participle adjectives are about the agent (the person or thing that does an action)
past participle adjectives are about the receiver (the person or thing that “receives” an action)
exercise 6 - Complete each sentence with the correct participle form.
1 a confused
  b confusing
2 a disappointing
  b disappointed
3 a Frightened
  b Frightening
4 a satisfying
  b satisfied
5 a interested
  b interesting
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We can add more information to participle modifiers to make a certain type of compound modifier.
a half-eaten sandwich = a sandwich that has been half eaten
a meat-eating animal = an animal that eats meat
a flea-bitten dog = a dog that has been bitten by fleas
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Homework: p. 156 exercise 7