participle
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Rather, it is a participle, derived from the verb “to draw” to describe an ongoing practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Ontos is the Greek participle from the verb “to be” and means “being.”
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Investigators also found other examples of her writing with the same past participle mistake.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2021
From that innocent present participle “encouraging” a mighty fountain sprang.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
Unfusing a participle can make a sentence clumsy or pretentious: Any alleged evils of capitalism are simply the result of people’s being free to choose.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
He once sent her a brief memo dedicated entirely to the misuse of present participles.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 22, 2021
Anne Carson says: “You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.”
From Slate ● May 15, 2019
Every now and then we have to disregard the serial comma, or leave our participles dangling, even in the rudest way.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017
Dr. Hussein came over to rescue us from white space and dangling participles.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2015
At one time, everyone agreed that the verb get had two past participles: got and gotten.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The AP English Exam: Writing, Grammar, and Word Choice
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