Definition of participle in English English dictionary
A form of a verb that may function as an adjective or noun. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. Participles can be combined with the auxiliary verbs have and be to form the perfect aspect, the progressive aspect, and the passive voice. The tense is always expressed through the auxiliary verb
In grammar, a participle is a form of a verb that can be used in compound tenses of the verb. There are two participles in English: the past participle, which usually ends in `-ed', and the present participle, which ends in `-ing'. one of the forms of a verb that are used to make tenses. In English, present participles end in -ing and past participles usually end in -ed or -en. (participium, from particeps ( PARTICIPATE); because it takes the part of both verb and adjective)
A verb form used as an adjective See for more information: 11 Rules of Writing Rule 8
In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, written, being, and exhaustedare participles
the term covers both a word derived from a verb and used as an adjective, as in a singing woman, and the -ing and -en non-finite forms of the verb, as in was singing (present participle), has given (past participle)
a verbal; the -ing or -ed form of the verb used as an adjective Ex : I love dancing bears a verbal; the -ing or -ed form of the verb used as an adjective Ex : I love dancing bears
In these pages the term participle refers to the past participle unless otherwise indicated This is the form of the verb used to make passive and perfect tenses See also -ING form
A verb form, either the past participle (-ed) ending used in forming perfect verb tenses, or the present participle (-ing) ending used in forming progressive verb tenses On their own they can be used as adjectives
A form of a verb that may function as an adjective or noun. When combined with a form of auxiliary verbs, such as have or be, they form certain tenses or moods of the verb
Words made from verbs that are used either with an auxiliary to create a verb tense(e g was eaten) or as an adjective to describe a noun (e g an eating apple) or as a noun to label a thing (e g the singing was loud) Notice that because the participles all derive from verbs, they always retain the idea of action in their meaning
the name given to a verb form that is derived from its infinitive or base form and which does the work of an adjective Verbs have a present participle and a past participle
A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived
Regular verbs add an -ed ending; irregular verbs vary The past participle is used with perfect verb tenses and on its own as an adjective: He had hit the ball over the fence several times
one of the principal parts of every verb: formed by adding -d or -ed to the present; used with the helping verbs have, has, or had, or with a form of be (with passive verbs)
A past participle is formed with "-ed" for regular verbs or by internal spelling changes for irregular verbs Examples of past participles include paid, taken, danced, slept, and screamed
(Grammar) form of a verb (usually ending in "-ed in English") that is used in forming perfect and passive tenses and occasionally functions as an adjective
In grammar, the past participle of a verb is a form that is usually the same as the past form and so ends in `-ed'. A number of verbs have irregular past participles, for example `break' - past participle `broken', and `come' - past participle `come'. Past participles are used to form perfect tenses and the passive voice, and many of them can be used like an adjective in front of a noun. A verb form indicating past or completed action or time that is used as a verbal adjective in phrases such as baked beans and finished work and with auxiliaries to form the passive voice or perfect and pluperfect tenses in constructions such as She had baked the beans and The work was finished. Also called perfect participle. the form of a verb used with the verb 'to have' in perfect tenses (for example 'eaten' in 'I have eaten'), or with the verb 'to be' in the passive (for example 'changed' in 'it was changed'), or sometimes as an adjective (for example 'broken' in 'a broken leg')
A participle that modifies a verb in same sentence and which is equivalent to an adverbial clause in English. Adverbial participles may denote time, condition, cause, concession, manner, means, purpose, or attendant circumstance. Adverbial participles are found in such languages as Greek, Lithuanian, Hindi, Hungarian, Tamil, Polish, and Russian. In Russian, the adverbial participle usually translates to while + gerund (while doing) or having + past participle (having done)
A verb form in some (e.g. Finno-Ugric) languages that allows the property of something being a target of an action to be formatted as an adjective-like attribute
A part of speech present in some languages (e.g. Latin) but absent in English, providing a sense of something having happened (e.g. 'having been educated')
In grammar, the present participle of a verb is the form which ends in `-ing'. Present participles are used to form continuous tenses, as in `She was wearing a neat blue suit'. They are often nouns, as in `I hate cooking' and `Cooking can be fun'. Many of them can be used like an adjective in front of a noun, as in `their smiling faces'. a participle that is formed in English by adding 'ing' to the verb, as in 'sleeping'. It can be used in compound forms of the verb to show continuous tenses, as in 'she's sleeping', or as an adjective, as in 'the sleeping child'