Different types of processes

[Fame]

I believe you do not have any information about the different types of processes, do you?

[Soup]

What kind of processes?

[Fame]

I mean material processes, mental processes etc.

[Soup]

I'm sorry. I don't know what you are asking.

[Fame]

Let's take this sentence for example:

Thirty per cent of all development llshould be covered with greenery llto help reduce the city’s soaring temperatures, llaccording to a consultancy study llcommissioned by the Buildings Department.

In this sentence, I have used ll to seperate the sentence into clauses and I have underlined the processes. (I'm not sure whether it's correct)

[Clark]

Fame, you've split the sentence into syntagmas, not into clauses.

[Soup]

Oh, OK. I think I get what you mean. The words that you underlined are called participles:

• Thirty per cent of all development should be covered with greenery [in order]
• to help reduce the city's soaring temperatures [which is]
• according to a consultancy study [that was]
• commissioned by the Building's Department.

Covered and commissioned are past participles. Soaring is a present participle

[Clark]

And 'according to' is not a participle, it is a preposition.

[Soup]

And 'according to' is not a participle, it is a preposition.

Clark, the poster is asking about the underlined words only.

[Clark]

Just in case.