participle

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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

He is one of the three writers credited on Too Late for Love, none of whom seem to know how to use the past participle of light correctly.

From BBC • May 12, 2019

“To bald” may not be a common intransitive verb, but that has not prevented “balding” from entering the language as a participle.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 2, 2019

It is the verb vacilar, present participle vacilando.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck