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Definition of Participles
1. participle [n] - See also: participle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Participles
Literary usage of Participles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"participles are adjective-verbals. 331. The simple participles are the present
active ... There are periphrastic participles, such as the perfect active ..."
2. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown (1861)
"I entered the room and set down. Go and lay down, my son. With such books, it
will always be difficult to learn children to read. RULE XIV.—participles. ..."
3. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1872)
"Preterit* and participles. Jle would have went with us, if we had invited him.
... participles relate to nouns or pronouns, or else are governed by ..."
4. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1903)
"Uses of participles 494. The Present and Perfect participles are sometimes used as
... participles often become complete adjectives, and may be compared, ..."
5. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"The Present, the Past, and the Compound participles of Transitive and of ...
Like adjectives, participles belong to sentences and parts of sentences. ..."
6. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"participles in -a>v, -overa, -ov (ш-verbs) ... participles in -<av are inflected
like ... Like participles are declined the adjectives ..."
7. A Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry by V. S. Rajam (1992)
"35 A NOTE ON participles GENERAL: participles are derived from verb stems and,
... The verbal participles are here sub-divided into several categories: the ..."
8. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures: Embracing a New Systematic Order of by Samuel Kirkham (1845)
"Verbs have three participles, the present 01 imperfect, the perfect, ...
PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. tjx participles are formed by adding to the verb the ..."
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