Participles
A participle is a verbal that is used as an adjective and most often ends
in -ing or -ed. The term verbal indicates that a participle,
like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore
expresses action or a state of being. However, since they function as
adjectives, participles modify nouns or pronouns.
There are two types of participles:
present participles and past participles. Present participles end in -ing.
Past participles end in -ed, -en, -d, -t, or -n, as in the words
asked, eaten, saved, dealt, and seen.
The crying
baby had a wet diaper.
Shaken, he walked away from the wrecked car.
The burning log fell off the fire.
Saved, she hugged the panting rescue dog.
*This
definition was taken from HERE.
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