In linguistics, a participle is a word that shares some characteristics of both verbs and adjectives.Participles have three functions in sentences. They can be components of multipart verbs, or they can function as adjectives or nouns. Past and present participles often function as adjectives that describe noun The present participles and past participles of verbs are often used as adjectives. So they agree in number and gender with the noun they modify, just like regular adjectives. The distinction between adjectives derived from present and past participles is similar to that between -ing and -ed adjectives in English. Here are some examples:
The crying baby drew a long breath and sucked in a spider crouching in the corner of the crib
Which baby? The crying baby. Which spider? The one that was crouching in the corner.
The mangled pair of sunglasses, bruised face, broken arm, and bleeding knees