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Example sentences for: participle
How can you use “participle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Filmed is here intended as a past participle, not the past of an active verb.
The same can be said of certain other of Pepys's locutions, for example the past participle gotten instead of got: “..
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.
The numbers in the above sentence indicate the beginning of each phrase and subordinate clause-- (1) adverb clause: “When people who swing want to see what's happening” modifies the verb try in the main clause; (2) adjective clause: “who swing” modifies the noun people ; (3) infinitive phrase: “to see what's happening” acts as the direct object of the verb want ; (4) noun clause: “what's happening” acts as the direct objective of the infinitive “to see”; (5) gerund phrase: “attending parties given by hipsters” acts as the direct object of the verb try ; (6) participial phrase: “given by hipster” modifies the noun parties ; (7) perpositional phrase: “by hipsters” modifies the passive participle given . In subsequent sentences I shall provide numbers but leave the reader to identify the structures, which will appear in varying orders, so as to avoide cluttering the discussion with labyrinthine explanations like this one.
, 13 October 90:7] Filmed is here a past participle, not the past of an active verb.
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