(n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles.
(a.) Anything that partakes of the nature of different things.
Example Sentences:
(1) There's only 10 of each, so those who covet them need to move quickly ( madebynode.com )… Greenspeak: Daylighting {dey-lie-t'ing} present participle Trend in architecture (possibly because we're not that keen on eco bulbs) to illuminate with natural daylight, making particular use of skylights.
(2) A mong the many challenges of writing is dealing with rules of correct usage: whether to worry about split infinitives, fused participles, and the meanings of words such as "fortuitous", "decimate" and "comprise".
(3) "[Such] families do not feel properly listened to or understood," Participle's principal partner Hilary Cottam has written.
(4) Where the ridges of these domains intersect, numerous 85-A participles apparently pile up against tight junctional remnants, creating arrays recognizable as gap junctions.
(5) For Creative Use of the Past Participle, take a bow Alan "He needed to take that on early, and that's what he done" Shearer, and for Significant Efforts in Avoiding Adverbs, once more, we salute the Redknapp family.
(6) For one project, Participle spent more than two years with Ella and her family.
(7) Many participles have turned into prepositions, such as "according", "allowing", "concerning", "considering", "excepting", "following", "given", "granted", "owing", "regarding" and "respecting", and they don't need subjects at all.
(8) Featherstone et al's work echoes that of Participle , an organisation that redesigns public services in collaboration with service users and staff.
(9) There were times when I tumbled into the crevice between the two languages, lost all sight of a natural English sentence, felt myself turning into the constituent molecules of a linguistic object – a pattern of auxiliaries, participles, pronouns.
Pluperfect
Definition:
(a.) More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event.
(n.) The pluperfect tense; also, a verb in the pluperfect tense.
Example Sentences:
(1) "You have never heard me say the BBC is a pluperfect organisation.