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Definition of Perfect participle
1. Noun. A participle that expresses completed action.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfect Participle
Literary usage of Perfect participle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"The perfect participle of Reflexives Used Adjectively with Active Force. ...
The reason that a perfect participle here can thus be used as an adjective is ..."
2. The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (1851)
"80;)—that, " If we wish to express by a participle, an action completed at any
time, we use the compound form, and this is THE perfect participle;" (p. ..."
3. Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Troilus by George Lyman Kittredge (1891)
"The perfect participle of Strong Verbs ends in the Troilus in -an, -en, -n, -e, -e (cf.
Child, § 61 ; ten Brink, $ 196). Instead of -en C usually has -yn ..."
4. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1874)
"The Second or perfect participle is always simple, and is regularly formed by
adding d or ed to the radical verb : those verbs from which it is formed ..."
5. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1873)
"The Second or perfect participle is always simple, and is regularly formed by
adding d or ed to the radical verb : those verbs from which it is formed ..."
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