Definition of PARTICIPLE. Meaning of PARTICIPLE. Synonyms of PARTICIPLE

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Definition of PARTICIPLE

Participle
Participle Par"ti*ci*ple, n. [F. participe, L. participium, fr. particeps sharing, participant; pars, gen. partis, a part + capere to take. See Participate.] 1. (Gram.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles. By a participle, [I understand] a verb in an adjectival aspect. --Earle. Note: Present participles, called also imperfect, or incomplete, participles, end in -ing. Past participles, called also perfect, or complete, participles, for the most part end in -ed, -d, -t, -en, or -n. A participle when used merely as an attribute of a noun, without reference to time, is called an adjective, or a participial adjective; as, a written constitution; a rolling stone; the exhausted army. The verbal noun in -ing has the form of the present participle. See Verbal noun, under Verbal, a. 2. Anything that partakes of the nature of different things. [Obs.] The participles or confines between plants and living creatures. --Bacon.

Meaning of PARTICIPLE from wikipedia

- In linguistics, a participle (from Latin participium 'a sharing, partaking'; abbr. PTCP) is a nonfinite verb form that has some of the characteristics...
- are some verbs with irregular past participles. There are also verbs with both regular and irregular participles, in which the irregular form is most...
- Traditional grammar makes a distinction within -ing forms between present participles and gerunds, a distinction that is not observed in such modern grammars...
- A dangling modifier (also known as a dangling participle, illogical participle or hanging participle) is a type of ambiguous grammatical construct whereby...
- The Ancient Gr**** participle is a non-finite nominal verb form declined for gender, number and case (thus, it is a verbal adjective) and has many functions...
- Latin perfect tense. It is formed using an auxiliary verb and the past participle of a verb. In British teaching of French, the p****é composé is usually...
- 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...
- 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...
- are: Past participle Present participle Gerundive: (constructed by preceding the present participle with the preposition en) Both participles may be used...
- (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...