| 单词 | present participle |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspresent participle present participle n. [compare French participe présent (1550 in Middle French)] Grammar a non-finite part of a verb which is used in some languages with an auxiliary verb to form progressive tenses, or on its own as an adjective with active sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [noun] > participle > types of present participle1705 past participle1798 fused participle1906 dangling participle1909 suspended participle1942 1694 A. Boyer Compl. French-master iii. v. 102 All Participles present in French, end in ant..except the Irregular Verbs of the three last Conjugations which form their Participles Present, as you may see in the List.] 1705 A. Lane Key to Art of Lett. 47 Wherever the present Participle is, it is always Active. 1839 H. Brougham Sketches of Public Characters II. 221 Taylor gives this as a reading of his Aldine, instead of the present participle, which is in most editions; and the past certainly seems the right reading. 1957 R. W. Zandwoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. i. ii. 31 The traditional name present participle is open to the objection that the verbal form it denotes does not necessarily refer to the present, just as a ‘past’ participle need not refer to the past. 2002 J. Mace Persian Gram. v. 116 There are two uses of the English ‘-ing’ verbal form which are not expressed with the Persian present participle. < as lemmas |
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