participle

Example Sentences

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Dederer is continually trying — not in the adjectival sense, but as the present participle: showing us her thought process, correcting as she goes and experimenting with different forms.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2023

Ontos is the Greek participle from the verb “to be” and means “being.”

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

From that innocent present participle “encouraging” a mighty fountain sprang.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

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

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