how do i know if this sentence has a participle or participial phrases "Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant."-Edgar Allen Poe?
When you are looking for participles, you are looking for verb forms that are not serving as verbs for subjects.
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/participle.htm
In that sentence, I see one participial phrase and one participle without a phrase.
After reading through the linked webpage above, let me know what you think, and I'll give you feedback.
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Just remember that participles are verbs that are behaving as adjectives... modifying nouns. So find the nouns and see if they have a describer that LOOKS like a verb.
Examples: The broken window let in the wind. The breaking waves roared along the shore.
I broke my toe when I kicked the rock.
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