These three sentences are clear to me:
The ball is red = It's a red ball.
The ball is rolling
But not this: It's a rolling ball
YesIt's a ball that is rolling.
Do you understand this?
I don't understand how the action is connected with a noun.If you understand
The ball is red = It's a red ball.
The ball is rolling,
and
It's a ball that is rolling.
Then you cannot claim that you don't understand It's a rolling ball.
I don't understand how the action is connected with a noun.
The boy is angry = This is an angry boy.
The girl is smiling(verb) = This is a smiling(participle) girl.
But why are these sentences in Present Continuous tense?
Why not:
The ball rolls or not The girl smiles?
The -ing suffix is like a Swiss army knife of the English language; it can be used to do multiple things, and these things don't necessarily have anything to do with one another.If this sentence is in Present Continuous tense, then I understand. I can understand tenses.
But the whole sentence is written in the past tense:
The agents had tiny swords; the ghosts looked like little floating sheets.
Can you tell us where you found this explanation, please?I have found this explanation:
He went on a walking tour.
In this sentence, the word walking is an adjective because it describes the noun tour. But it also acts as a verb because it refers to an action— something someone does.
This thread has gone on long enough. Please start a new thread for past participles (which don't need capital letters).But what about past participles?
Floating sheets
Sheets do the action of the verb “to float”. Does it mean that sheets float?
A moving car
A car does the action of the verb “to move”. Does it mean that a car moves?
I listened – heard only
the blood pounding in my ears.
The blood does the action of the verb “to pound”. Does it mean that [STRIKE]the[/STRIKE] blood pounds in ears?
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