What's the difference between participle and pluperfect?

Participle


Definition:

  • (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.

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