A Study on Understanding & Utilization of Participles and Participle Clauses

The purpose of this study is to investigate the degree of understanding and utilization of participles and participle clauses for students taking liberal arts English courses at J University located in central and small cities in Korea, so that they can understand and use participles and participle clauses appropriately in the future. Although students had a good understanding of the present participle and the past participle, they showed a tendency to confuse the present participle because it has the same form as the gerund. However, it was found that many people do not understand participle phrases and participle clauses. The proportion of students who understood and did not understand participles and participle adjectives was similar. Therefore, there was a tendency to accept participle adjectives as unfamiliar. The implication of this study was that grammar should not be learned only through simple grammar, but should be acquired and understood in the process of utilizing and utilizing it. When teaching and learning English grammar, the first thing to do is to understand the correct terminology, and then follow the order of understanding and utilizing it in sentences.