• In linguistics, a participle (from Latin participium 'a sharing, partaking'; abbr. PTCP) is a nonfinite verb form that has some of the characteristics...
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    Traditional grammar makes a distinction within -ing forms between present participles and gerunds, a distinction that is not observed in such modern grammars...
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  • are some verbs with irregular past participles. There are also verbs with both regular and irregular participles, in which the irregular form is most...
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  • A dangling modifier (also known as a dangling participle, illogical participle or hanging participle) is a type of ambiguous grammatical construct whereby...
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  • The Ancient Greek participle is a non-finite nominal verb form declined for gender, number and case (thus, it is a verbal adjective) and has many functions...
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  • are: Past participle Present participle Gerundive: (constructed by preceding the present participle with the preposition en) Both participles may be used...
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  • (present I sing, past I sang, past participle I have sung) and drive (present I drive, past I drove, past participle I have driven), as opposed to weak...
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    Latin perfect tense. It is formed using an auxiliary verb and the past participle of a verb. In British teaching of French, the passé composé is usually...
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  • tense, aspect, mood, voice, number, and person. Non-finite forms such as participles are also extensively used. Some of the features of the verbal system...
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    -ing (redirect from Gerund–participle)
    inflected forms of English verbs. This verb form is used as a present participle, as a gerund, and sometimes as an independent noun or adjective. The suffix...
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    preterite), a past participle (which may be the same as the past tense), and a form ending in -ing that serves as a present participle and gerund. Most...
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  • the same form as the gerund, but is distinct from the present active participle. In Late Latin, the differences were largely lost, resulting in a form...
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    the past participle. The other inflected parts of the verb – the third person singular present indicative in -[e]s, and the present participle and gerund...
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  • tenses (present, aorist, and perfect). The optative mood, infinitives and participles are found in four tenses (present, aorist, perfect, and future) and all...
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  • imperfective). The three non-finite moods are the infinitive, past participle, and present participle. There are compound constructions that use more than one verb...
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  • present/past participles, distinguished by adjectival and adverbial usage (see adjectival participle and adverbial participle). Verbs and participles can be...
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    singular The past tense or preterite (went, wrote, climbed) The past participle (gone, written, climbed) – identical to the past tense in the case of...
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  • used: the present, the perfect, the future participle with esse (which is often omitted), and the future participle with fuisse. The present infinitive is...
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  • means "completed" (from Latin perfectum, which is the perfect passive participle of the verb perficere "to complete"). In traditional Latin and Ancient...
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  • forms; only the participle does. If a verb or converb need to be negated, a participle must be used instead of them. The participle is negated by a combination...
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    grammatical forms of such words and phrases (including verb, adjective, gerund, participle, and infinitive forms)". The bill omitted "tits", but included "asshole"...
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    tense Participle The Aramaic verb has two participles: an active participle with suffix and a passive participle with suffix: active participles with suffix...
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    as well as three non-temporal forms (the infinitive, gerund, and past participle). Two of the tenses, namely both subjunctive futures, are now obsolete...
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  • (namenilnik). Two present active participles, in -č and in -e, indicating ongoing action. Two past active participles, in -l and in -(v)ši, indicating...
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  • perfect passive participle, which uses the same stem. (Texts that list the perfect passive participle use the future active participle for intransitive...
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  • languages do so using appropriate auxiliary verbs in combination with past participles. Ancient Greek verbs had a pluperfect form (called ὑπερσυντέλικος, "more...
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    Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts...
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  • pattern: drank and drunk (not "drinked"); hit (as past tense and past participle, not "hitted") and has and had (not "haves" and "haved"). The classification...
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  • participle (also known as the "active participle" or "l-participle") is used for forming the past tense and the conditionals. The passive participle is...
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  • or following action. It is considered to be a kind of infinitive, or participle. It is often used in Balto-Slavic languages. Syntactically it functions...
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