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Participial adjectives Verbs that describe reactions Verbs are the action words in a sentence that describe what the subject is doing, but there are verbs that written in a certain way can describe reactions to someone or something . For example: She confuses me (verb to describe an action) He was confused (verb to describe a reaction) He made faces to amuse her (verb to describe an action) This type of verbs are called Participial adjectives . Participle is a form of a verb that can be used in compound tenses of the verb. There are 2 types of participle in English : ∽Past Participle (usually ends in -ed) ∽Present participle (ends in -ing) Some participles can be used as adjectives.

SENTENCE ADVERBS They are called sentence adverbs and they act as a comment.  Compared with the fact that an adverb typically modifies the  verb of a sentence, a sentence adverb is an adverb that appears usually at the beginning of a sentence and modifies the sentence as a whole.   This type of adverb usually ends in –ly and is often followed by a comma , but the main characteristic is the modiying quality of the whole sentence.