Do you know what is the largest lizard? This lizard is called komodo. It lives in the scrub and woodland of a few Indonesian islands. The world’s heaviest lizard weighing 150 pounds or more is Komodo dragon. The largest Komodo ever measured was more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighed 366 pounds (166 kg) but the average size of komodo in the wild is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) long and 200 pounds (91 kg) .Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful limbs and a muscular tail. They use their keen sense of smell to locate decaying animal remains from several miles away. They also hunt other lizards as well as large mammals and are sometimes cannibalistic.
The Komodo dragon’s teeth are almost completely covered by its gums. When it feeds, the gums bleed, creating an ideal culture for virulent bacteria. The bacteria that live in the Komodo dragon’s saliva causes septicemia, or blood poisoning, in its victims. A dragon will bite its prey, then follow it until the animal is too weak to carry on This lizard species is threatened by hunting, loss of prey species and habitat loss.
From this sentence "Komodo dragon is the world’s heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more". Do you think that this sentence is Adjective phrase? Because in I am confuse this sentence. Participle is must be contained adjective phrase that coming form adjective clause changed into adjective phrase.
BalasHapusI'm sorry, this paragraph is wrong. I'm not using participle. I will repost my paragraph soon.
HapusI already repost my paragraph. I think this is the correct paragraph.
BalasHapusThe bold sentence in your paragraph is present participle, but the previous sentence is not present participle. Present participle is different with gerund. Present participle the V-ing form is an adjective but in gerund is verb.
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