Words similar to participle
Example sentences for: participle
How can you use “participle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The same can be said of certain other of Pepys's locutions, for example the past participle gotten instead of got: “..
We would say, for example, that gone in He has gone is a past participle but an adjective in He is gone (if only because English does not use the verb to be as an auxiliary, the way French does); alleged in it was alleged is clearly a past participle, but in the alleged culprit it is an adjective.
Filmed is here intended as a past participle, not the past of an active verb.
I excused myself at once, left Roger in Cupid's hands and went over to check out another participle I'd noticed dangling by the bar.
This feature has already been demonstrated in the very first example (the cock that crows) and also in clue F. Clue J offers two further instances: at first reading, changed is suggestive of being a past tense but after analysis it is identified as a past participle (serving as an anagram flag); likewise, quarterly shifts from adverb to noun.