Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 0 compound words that contain participles. The most common are listed below. Open participles in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
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- past participlesplural of past participle: A participle indicating a completed action or state.
- active participlesplural of active participle: A 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.
- adverbial participlesplural of adverbial participle: A 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 …
- agent participlesplural of agent participle: 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.
- dangling participlesplural of dangling participle: Any participle used as a dangling modifier.
- future participlesplural of future participle: A 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.
- hanging participlesplural of hanging participle: A dangling participle.
- passive participlesplural of passive participle: A 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.
- perfect participlesplural of perfect participle: A participle indicating a completed action or state:
- present participlesplural of present participle: A nonfinite verb form that indicates an ongoing action or state and which can function as an adjective.
- verbal participlesplural of verbal participle: A 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) …
- gerund-participlesplural of gerund-participle: The form of an English verb that ends in -ing and can function as a noun, an adjective, or a progressive verb.
- past active participlesplural of past active participle: A participle that describes an action that has been completed in the past.
- perfect passive participlesplural of perfect passive participle: A 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.
- present active participlesplural of present active participle: A 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.