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Participle   /pˈɑrtɪsˌɪpəl/   Listen
Participle

noun
1.
A non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses.  Synonym: participial.



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"Participle" Quotes from Famous Books



... show that rack "is merely the past tense, and therefore past participle, [reac] or [rec], of the Anglo-Saxon verb Recan, exhalare, to reek;" and although the advocates of its being a particular description of light cloud refer to him as an authority for their reading, he treats it throughout generally as "a vapour, a steam, or an exhalation." ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 • Various
... they were glad to be free from a danger which (though remotely) threatened themselves, as the next sentence explains. I can see no good reason for taking the participle [Greek: polemoumenoi] as concessive ...
— The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 • Demosthenes


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