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The Participleas Attribute§ 252. There are two types of attributes expressed by the par- 1) the participle may immediately precede its head-noun, 2) the participle may follow its head-noun and be separated from Attributes expressed by participles are not lexically dependent, § 253. When the participle immediately precedes its head-noun With transitive verbs, the participle has passive meaning — it e.g. A man in torn and dusty clothes was making his way towards This forlorn creature with the dyedhair and haggard, paint- "Why don't you stop torturing yourself and put an end to all In the building, lightedwindows were shining here and there. In the examples above we are dealing with real participles e.g. She had an affected,absent way of talking. After a moment she opened the door and got in with a grieved 1 Loose corresponds to the Russian îáîñîáëåííîå. When I was eighteen I had very decidedviews of my own With intransitive verbs, 1 the participle has active meaning — e.g. They sat on a fallentree that made a convenient seat. Jenkinson was a retiredcolonel who lived in Dorset and whose Other examples of this kind are the risen sun, the departed Participles as attributes preceding their head-nouns are in com- Note 1. It should be noted that the participles involved, added, obtained and e.g. I did not want to go to a club for lunch, in case I met Douglas or anyone in- Note 2. The participle left in post-position undergoes a change of meaning and e.g. There was no evidence left. He's the only friend I seem to have leftnow. § 254.The participle as a loose attribute is usually part of an ex- e.g. Mr Johnson, I have sent for you to tell you of a serious com- He carried the crate out to the Ford truck parkedin the nar- As has been said (see "Verbs", § 173), there are not many participles formed from The (passive) subject of the participle in this function is its e.g. Lennox sat down on a chair lately vacated by Lady Westholme. In a considerable number of instances the participle is adjec- being late. Police are looking for a boy known to work at Turtle's. The participle as a loose attribute is typical of literary style. NOUNS § 1. Nouns are names of objects, i.e. things, human beings, ani- Semantically all nouns can be divided into two main groups: Common nouns, in their turn, are subdivided into countable Nouns have the grammatical categories of number and case They are also characterized by the functions they perform in Date: 2016-01-03; view: 905
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