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Participial adjective is an ending -ing or -ed adjective that usually exhibits properties like other adjectives. -ing to form the present participle, whereas -ed (not always; -ed only to represent) for the past participle.

Participial adjective is called jugaverbal adjective or deverbal adjective.

Form Participial Adjective

There are participial adjectives that have the appropriate verb version, some are not. If there is a corresponding version of the verb, then there is also a versiparticipial verb that looks exactly the same as the participial adjective.

Verb	Participial Verb	Participial Adjective
to disturb, to irritate, to annoy	disturbing, irritating, annoying	disturbing, irritating, annoying
–	–	well-built, unknown

Many participial adjectives that have no verb versions serve either as attributive or predicative in combination with nouns (forming a compound adjective).

Example of Participial Adjective:

As Attributive	As Predicative
sun-dried tomatoes	The tomatoes were sun dried.
wind-powered cars	The cars are wind powered.
mouth-watering lasagna	This lasagna is mouth watering.
record-breaking natural disasters	The natural disasters were record breaking.

Nature of Participial Adjective

Like other adjectives, the participial adjective can:

• modified with adverb of degree:

Very embarrassing moments, very confusing questions, extremely well trained dogs, less damaging hair dye

• formed comparative and superlative it:

The confusing question, more confusing question, the most confusing question

• most can be used either as attributive or predicative:

As Attributive	As Predicative
These are confusing questions.	These questions are confusing.
That’s well-trained dog.	That dog is well trained.

As predicative, this word often appears after linking verbs like: be, become, danseem. -Ing adjectives tend to describe a person or something, while a -ed adjective to talk about feelings.

Example Of Participial Adjective with Linking Verb:

·         The customers seemed interested, but they didn’t call back.

·         He becomes depressed easily.

Meaning of Participial Adjective

The participant adjective means the same as the active verb. Meaning, the noun that he describes acts as a performer (the actor, the cause) of the activity called the present participle.

Example Present-Participial Adjective:

·         amazing pictures ~ pictures that amaze

·         fact-finding techniques ~ techniques that find facts

In contrast to the past-participial adjective, these adjectives are mostly passive. In other words, the described noun is the receiver (receiver, the sensing) of the activity called the past participle.

Source: wordsmile.com (already translated)