ID: 1661166. ), Amusing short films are shown at the animated film festival. ( cough 19 cough) Now we'll talk about past participial phrases, which are exactly the same as present participial phrases except they use past participles instead of present participles. Adding some frosting, I finished the cake. What is a modifier. Participial modifiers can be distinguished on the basis of their structural complexity into lexical, phrasal, and clausal. A prepositional phrase gets misplaced when the writer puts in next to the wrong word. Other contents: Find out more about participial adjectives, what they modify, and how to use them. Words in this group (see words listed above) are problematic. Past participle: evaluated. (a Antarctic region that is permanently frozen), She wore a long-sleeved shirt. The beaten home team was booed as soon as the match ended. Across the country thousands of protesters marched in the street; however, the President was a man unmoved. A prepositional phrase is a short phrase that begins with a preposition. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. ¹adjectival passive (Huddleston 16 §10.1.3), Also see Gerund or Participle?