| Exercise Five then asks learners to identify statives and adjective participles in an example paragraph. |
| Moreover, nouns express sorts of things, verbs and participles are tensed, pronouns are either demonstrative or relative. |
| Both of them have a raft of irregular preterites and past participles, suggesting long standing confusion. |
| It is not surprising, therefore, that present participles can sometimes function as prepositions. |
| The past participles affectus and effectus got borrowed into English as affect and effect. |
| It's like detective work, but using conjunctives and participles instead of fingerprints and DNA samples. |
