The major way to distiguish a main verb and a verb phrase with a participle in a sentence is to pay close attention to how the verb functions or what element does it modify.
While main verbs express action, participles look like verbs but function as modifiers or adjectives, and they usually end in -ed or -ing.
For example, in "The smiling postman waved at the children", the participle "smiling" functions as a modifier, indicating what kind of postman was "waving" (the main verb expressing an action).
Another example would be "The meal cooked last night smelled good". Here, "cooked last night" explains which meal performed the action expressed by the main verb "smelled".
To conclude, while main verbs express or indicate action, verb phrases with a participle function as adjectives modifying nouns.
What are the options tho? And what book is this?
<h3>
<u>In </u><u>Indirect </u><u>Speech</u><u>:</u></h3>
➺ She told me that her brother wanted to meet me.
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<u>Explanation:</u></h3>
➺ Change to indirect Speech by :-
- Changing the narration from 1st person to 3rd person.
- Changing from present tense to past tense.
ʰᵒᵖᵉ ⁱᵗ ʰᵉˡᵖˢ
꧁❣ ʀᴀɪɴʙᴏᴡˢᵃˡᵗ2²2² ࿐
The correct answer is B.
The solution to the stray cat problem is aggressive spay and neuter policies. This claim is both arguable and defensible because you can defend the claim by using documented spay and neuter policies saying that they work but you can also argue the claim by using the documented spay and neuter policies saying that they don't work.
Would you be able to show the image or the passage so that i can see or read it to understand what this is saying better
