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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:
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.
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.
That is not the case for alternating current , a subentry under alternate , or the array to be found under pass , which includes in passing (participle/gerund), make a pass at (noun), pass by (verb), passed pawn (adjective/past participle).
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.
The same can be said of certain other of Pepys's locutions, for example the past participle gotten instead of got: “..
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