participial

Examples

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• Inserted at the beginning of the question is a participial phrase: "After apologizing for how irrational and inappropriate it must sound after all this time..."

  Fiction book (1998)

• In its most shocking moment, the eye of the passage begins with the participial phrase "Standing on the bare ground."

  Academic text (1997)

• So just keep a slightly flexible eye out for participial forms.

  MIT OpenCourseWare

• There are no visual examples, nor is it clear why those participial skills are important.

  Blog text (14)

• In Western dialects, where this shift was not so dramatic, the old participial form held its own for much longer.

  Academic text (1996)

• The suggestion of transformation offered by the participial form promises us again the fullness of artifice.

  Academic text (1996)

• Delores knew that she and Jan spoke the language poorly; the kya preferred to start their sentences with participial phrases.

  Fiction book (1998)

• For Christensen, the following sentence of Hemingway's is typical of the modern style in its expanding modification via participial and absolute phrases:

  Academic text (2005)

• The Latin cultura is a participial form of colere, a verb whose meanings include colonize, inhabit, worship, protect, and farm.

  Academic text (1999)

• His Factor 2, for instance, is a cluster of related features like past tense forms, third person pronouns, and present participial clauses; on this factor, mystery and adventure fiction stand at the high end of the scale, whereas academic prose and official documents are at the low end.

  Academic text (2002)

Synonyms

P

participative

vsparticipial

• Specialized

6.8

Relating to verb forms that act like adjectives and describe actions

is the general term for being about those verb-based forms

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology