The teacher taught the students about using a participle with a verb. From LearnThat.org.
The past participle is here coincident in time with the preceding verb, ye were. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
This use of the participle is a Latinism: see note, l. From Wordnik.com. [Milton's Comus] Reference
But we find sentences in the LXX in which a participle is the only verb. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference
But worse, it’s completely unclear who the dangling participle is supposed to refer to. From Wordnik.com. [2008 July « Motivated Grammar] Reference
A participle is a word that describes a noun or pronoun, by assigning to it a certain action or state. From Wordnik.com. [First book in composition, applying the principles of grammar to the art of composing : also, giving full directions for punctuation : especially designed for the use of southern schools,] Reference
From what word is the term participle derived?. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
“Shírah” = juice in Arabic garb) and have coined a participle “Musayrij” e.g. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
In the progressive, the past participle is wanting. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The +participle+ may be used as an +adjective modifier+. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The complement is here modified by a participle phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The +participle+ may be used as an +attribute complement+. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The +participle+ may be used as an +objective complement+. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
(Notice that the objective complement is here a participle.) 13. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
These boys were using it as a verb, an adverb, even a participle. From Wordnik.com. [In Defense Of *$##@&Amp;$%#] Reference
The +participle+ may be the +principal word+ in a phrase used as a. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
When the assumed subject of the participle or the infinitive is. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The +participle+ may be used in +independent+ or +absolute phrases+. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
All verbs that do not form the past tense and the past participle by adding. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
An adverb clause may be contracted into a participle or a participle phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The +participle+ may be used as +principal word+ in a +prepositional phrase+. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The participle is in the neuter, the subjects being both animate and inanimate. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
In the following example the present participle is used for the infinitive mood. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
Find in 4 and 5 an infinitive phrase and a participle phrase used independently. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
(Somebody, please, take this man aside and explain what a dangling participle is.). From Wordnik.com. [Split Decision On A Slugfest] Reference
A participle or participial phrase is naturally referred to the nearest nominative. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
The principal word of a prepositional phrase is here modified by a participle phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
In using a participle, be careful to leave no doubt as to what you intend it to modify. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
Show that an adjective clause may be equivalent to an Infinitive phrase or a participle phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The participle should be so placed that there can be no doubt as to the noun to which it refers. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
The adjective, the participle, and the infinitive do not here seem to differ essentially in office. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
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