Question

Combine the following pair of sentences by making uses of a participle.
We met a man. He was carrying a load of wood.
A) We met a man who carried a load of wood.
B) We met a man who was carrying a load of wood.
C) We were meeting a man who was carrying a load of wood.
D) We were meeting a man who carried a load of wood.

Answer 1

Hint: Present participle, past participle, and perfect participle are the three types of participles in English. The first two are possibly familiar to you from various tenses and adjective forms.
To begin, participles are verb-derived words that can be used as adjectives or as parts of verb phrases to establish different verb tenses. Simply put, a participle will appear to be a verb (running), but it can serve a different purpose in the sentence: the running water. The participle is defining the water and also serving as an adjective.

Complete answer:
Participle – A participle is a verb form that can be used as an adjective or combined with the verb to be to form various verb tenses.

Present participles – All present participles in English end in -ing. When a verb's base form ends in a consonant, you usually only add -ing. The walk becomes walking, eating becomes eating, thinking becomes thinking, and so on. The -e is normally dropped before the -ing is inserted if the verb ends with a silent -e. Move becomes moving, consume becomes consuming, and meditate becomes meditating. Before the -ing is applied to verbs that end in -ie, the -ie is normally changed to -y. Gerund participles are another name for present participles.

Past Participles - The majority of past participles are formed by adding -ed to a verb's base form (or only -d if the verb already ends in -e). The walk becomes the walk, and the move becomes the move, and so on. There are a few verbs, however, that have irregular past participles. Think/thought, eat/eaten, go/gone, do/done, and feel/felt are a few examples.

Let us analyze the given option
A) Option A. We met a man who carried a load of wood : The word 'carried' means that the man used to carry wood but wasn't when the author encountered him. Hence, this option is an incorrect answer.

B) Option B We met a man who was carrying a load of wood : A gerund is a verb form that is used as a noun, while a participle is a verb form that is used as an adjective or as a verb with an auxiliary verb.
A perfect participle may be used to emphasize that one action came before another.'carrying' is a verb form that is used as an adjective to explain what a man is doing. Hence, this is the correct answer.
Option C. We were meeting a man who was carrying a load of wood : The sentence's tense has changed. Hence, this option C. is incorrect.

Option D. We were meeting a man who carried a load of wood : The word 'meeting' is used as a verb form rather than a participle. Hence, this option D. is incorrect.

Therefore, Option B i.e, We met a man who was carrying a load of wood is the correct answer since 'carrying' is a verb form that is used as an adjective to explain what a man is doing.

Note: The perfect participle denotes operation that has been done. By putting the present participle in front of the past participle, you will make the perfect participle. For example, having accomplished, completed, read, or spoken.
For both active and passive voice, the perfect participle may be used.
Active voice: having + past participle (Having cooked, he set the table.)
Passive voice: having been + past participle (Having been cooked, the food looked delicious.)