Frequency of Participial Modifier Clauses in a Selection of Texts in the Magazine Genre

The  paper  explores  the  frequency  of  participial  modifier  clauses  in  a  selection  of  texts  in  the magazine genre. Non-finite clauses containing the main verb in the participle form, called –ing and –ed forms,  are  not  uncommon  in  written  English.  This  paper  aims  to  determine  the  frequency  of  such participial  clauses  when  they  have  a  modifier  function,  namely  serving  as  adverbials  to  verbs  or  as sentence adverbials, or as modifiers within noun phrases, in a selection of texts in the magazine genre. It  was hypothesised that participial clauses would have a significant presence in this genre, especially the –ing clauses, and that their predominant function would be adnominal. The corpus under consideration has provided evidence of significant presence of participial modifier clauses in this genre and supported the initial assumption of prevalence of –ing clauses, and their adnominal function.