participle

How To Use participle In A Sentence

• The past participle of a transitive verb is always passive except in such forms as _have chosen, had chosen_. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
• The participle (yotse ') emphasizes the continuousness of the act, but it is not to be translated as a present, Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
• Like participles, adjectives and also some idiomatic preposition phrases, when used as adjuncts, need an understood subject (or, it might be better to say, a target of predication) to be filled in if they are to be understood.
• Any explanation for the use of the past participle (assis, couche (accent)) rather than the tu form of the imperitive? Fifille - French Word-A-Day
• Personally, I like the sound of that: an active process, implied by the present participle, or indeed by the gerundive. Archive 2007-02-01
• For those who buy into Nostratic or Indo-Uralic there's a possible cognate in Uralic, *t, which is used to form participles and infinitives in Finnic, Saami, Ob-Ugrian, and Samoyedic. The PIE *to-participle in my subjective-objective model
• In office it is like the second kind of participles, described in Lesson 37, and from many grammarians has received the same name -- some calling both _gerunds_, and others calling both _infinitives_. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
• Why should the distinction between a participle and a gerund matter? Times, Sunday Times
• You seem to have erred in characterizing as solipsistic those solons who dangled a participle in drafting the law controlling the National Endowment for the Arts. No Uncertain Terms
• And that in the church they are vested with rule appears not only by their name of elders, which when applied to officers, imports rule, authority, &c., as hath been said; but also by the adjunct participle _that rule_, or The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London