A non-finite form of the verb

Usage examples of participle.

However, I tend to think that passive participles do behave like normal adjectives in this regard.

This use of the past form for the participle is frequent in Elizabethan English.

It has sometimes in the end of words a sound obscure, and scarcely perceptible, as open, shapen, shotten, thistle, participle, metre, lucre.

The passive voice is formed by joining the participle preterit to the substantive verb, as I am loved.

The passive is formed by the addition of the participle preterit to the different tenses of the verb to be, which must therefore be here exhibited.

There is another manner of using the active participle, which gives it a passive signification: as, The grammar is now printing, grammatica jam nunc chartis imprimitur.

Win, spin, begin, swim, strike, stick, sing, sting, fling, ring, wring, spring, swing, drink, sink, shrink, stink, come, run, find, bind, grind, wind, both in the preterit imperfect and participle passive, give won, spun, begun, swum, struck, stuck, sung, stung, flung, rung, wrung, sprung, swung, drunk, sunk, shrunk, stunk, come, run, found, bound, ground, wound.

Some in the participle passive likewise take en, as stricken, strucken, drunken, bounden.

Take, shake, forsake, wake, awake, stand, break, speak, bear, shear, swear, tear, wear, weave, cleave, strive, thrive, drive, shine, rise, arise, smite, write, bide, abide, ride, choose, chuse, tread, get, beget, forget, seethe, make in both preterit and participle took, shook, forsook, woke, awoke, stood, broke, spoke, bore, shore, swore, tore, wore, wove, clove, strove, throve, drove, shone, rose, arose, smote, wrote, bode, abode, rode, chose, trode, got, begot, forgot, sod.

In the participle passive many of them are formed by en, as taken, shaken, forsaken, broken, spoken, born, shorn, sworn, torn, worn, woven, cloven, thriven, driven, risen, smitten, ridden, chosen, trodden, gotten, begotten, forgotten, sodden.

The action is the same with the participle present, as loving, frighting, fighting, striking.

The participle should be so placed that there can be no doubt as to the noun to which it refers.

Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, participle, conjunction, preposition, interjection.

My English teacher, a tiny, shriveled martinet, sent terror into my soul for a dangling participle or an incorrectly parsed sentence.

Assistant Chief Nettle had been immediately promoted to Acting Chief Nettle, and everyone knew that Acting Chief Nettle wanted nothing more than to drop the present participle from his title.