The participle

Verbal features
Adjectival features
Participle II is used as the main verb in analytical forms of perfect and passive constructions, e.g. Peter had done his work. The goods have been sent to the client. Participle II has the meaning of completion (perfectivity), e.g. The auctioneer cries out, ’The picture is going! Gone!’ Participle II has voice peculiarities Participle II of transitive verbs are semantically passive e.g. All the guests invited to the party were enjoying themselves. Participle II of intransitive verbs are semantically active, e.g. The sun, risen over the lake, promised a hot day. Participle II combines with prepositional object, usually with the preposition ‘by’, e.g. Jane entered the room followed by her brother.	Participle II functions as an attribute, e.g. Inside the envelope was a neatly written letter. Participle II functions as a predicative, e.g. Henry felt disappointed. Participle II combines with adverbial modifiers of degree, such as too, very, so, much, more, e.g. We were too excited to hear the bell.

PARTICIPLE II AS ATTRIBUTE

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   Participle II in the function of an attribute can be used either before or after the noun they modify.
   

e.g. We saw a crashed car standing in the middle of the road.
The car, crashed in an accident, was taken to the junk yard.

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