A predicative

Everybody's gone.

She looked embarrassed.

Note 1. Sometimes participles II used as attributes or predicatives lose their verbal character and become mere adjectives:

I am very worried about you. (adjective)

We were worried by mosquitoes all night. (participle II) (R.A.Close)

Such adjectives homonymous with participle II may be used with prepositions other then by:

alarmed at; amazed at; bored with; distinguished for; embarrassed about, at, over; excited about, at, over; frightened about, at, of; given to (склонный); interested in; pleased about, at, with; opposed to; shocked at; tired of; worried about;

Participle II used as part of a passive construction is followed by the preposition by:

I am surprised by the knock at the door. (R.A.Close)

Note 2. Adjectives homonymous with participle II can be modified by the adverbs too, very, more, less:

I am no less embarrassed about it than you are.

Participles are modified by such adverbs as (very) much, well, badly, completely, greatly, highly:

Her performance was (very) much admired.

The pedestrian was badly (seriously) injured. (R.A.Close)

Note 3. Some participles II which turned into adjectives, when used attributively, have a form different from that of the participle:

participle II	adjective
blessed [blest]	blessed [blesıd]
drunk	drunken
lit	lighted
melted	molten
rottet	rotten
shaved	shaven
shrunk	shrunken
sunk	sunken

Look at these drunken people!

These people have drunk a lot.

Note 4. Some participles II change their meaning according to the position:

a concerned (=worried) expression – the people concerned (=affected) (M.Swan)

Note 5. Some participles II can be used only in compounds with adverbs:

a well-read person, a much-travelled man, recently-arrived immigrants (M.Swan)

An adverbial modifier of

Time

When finished, the story turned out to be quite thrilling.

Condition

If discovered, they'll be sent home at once!

Comparison

He walked quickly, as if pressed for time.

Cause

Exhausted and hungry, they decided to return home.

Concession

Though frightened, she kept smiling.

Even if posted now, the letter won't reach him in time.

Part of a compound verbal predicate (after intransitive verbs which denote position)

She stood surprised before the closed door.

The telegram lay unopened the whole day.

Predicative constructions (complexes) with participle II.

In predicative constructions the relations between the nominal element (a noun or a pronoun) and participle II are those of secondary subject and secondary predicate.

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