Participles gone wrong

Continues from Part One and shows where participles and participial phrases can go wrong.

MOST dictionaries show the three principal parts of a verb; for example, see (base form), saw (past tense), seen (past participle) – and these three parts go to form all the tenses of a verb. For the purpose of this article (which deals with present and past participles), we need note that the present participle is formed from the base form of the verb with the addition of the –ing suffix (e.g. see > seeing) while the past participle is as listed.