Example sentences for: participle

How can you use “participle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As shrunk is a past and past participle of shrink and not, properly, an adjective, I am not sure why it is there in place of shrunken , especially since Mikhail specifically writes in his Preface, Only words listed in standard language dictionaries as adjectives are included in this Dictionary.

  • A favorite is using the present participle as a noun ( parking any parking facility; dancing dancing hall; camping camp site; planning budget or plan of action; mailing batch of junk mail; living living room).

  • The fourth is tatpurusha literally his servant, which is used to describe compounds in which the first element qualifies or determines the second, while the second retains its grammatical independence as a noun, adjective, or participle.

  • Gedunk is obviously a humorous application of the past participle of dunk --Crullers “gedunked” in coffee--and by the 1930s it was obviously well established in the Navy to refer to any concoction involving ice cream, and especially to establishments dispensing it.

  • What about byvshii having been and budushchii , the future participle of the Russian verb for to be?


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