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- past participleA participle indicating a completed action or state.
- present participleA nonfinite verb form that indicates an ongoing action or state and which can function as an adjective.
- adverbial participleA participle that modifies a verb in the same sentence and is equivalent to an adverbial clause in English. Adverbial participles may denote time, condition, cause, concession, manner, means, purpose, or attendant circumstance.
- active participleA participle indicating an ongoing or completed action or state in the active voice, where a noun modified by the participle is taken to represent the agent of the action denoted by the verb.
- future participleA part of speech present in some languages (e.g. Latin, Hungarian and Georgian) but not in English that gives a sense of something about to happen.
- passive participleA participle indicating an ongoing or completed action or state in the passive voice, where a noun modified by the participle is taken to represent the patient of the action denoted by the verb.
- gerund-participleThe form of an English verb that ends in -ing and can function as a noun, an adjective, or a progressive verb.
- dangling participleAny participle used as a dangling modifier.
- hanging participleA dangling participle.
- perfect participleA participle indicating a completed action or state:
- present active participleA participle that expresses an action that occurs at the same moment as the action of the main verb, regardless of the of tense the main verb.
- verbal participleA participle in Hungarian, similar in meaning to the past participle but expressing it with a past-tense definite-object verb form, which takes its argument as a subject in the nominative (like a finite verb), rather than with a phrase …
- perfect passive participleA participle, prominent in some languages (e.g. Latin, Greek) but less common in English, describing something that happened to a noun (the subject) in the past.
- agent participleA 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.
- past active participleA participle that describes an action that has been completed in the past.