Wondering how to use Participle in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as participial or verb.
Participle meaning
A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.
Synonyms of Participle
Using Participle
- The main meaning on this page is: A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.
- Useful related words include: participial, verb.
- In the example corpus, participle often appears in combinations such as: past participle, passive participle, participle of.
Context around Participle
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Participle
- In this selection, "participle" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, passive, past, present, past, basically and occasionally stand out and add context to how "participle" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a nominal participle indicates one and a passive participle also called. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "participle" sits close to words such as abner, acquit and adamantly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with participle
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Active The first periphrastic conjugation uses the future participle. (9 words)
As always, the passive voice uses the perfect passive participle. (10 words)
The active participle of break is breaking, and the passive participle is broken. (13 words)
In verbs of types IV-VI, the 't' at the end of the stem is assimilated to the 'n': Present passive participle The present passive participle can be constructed from the 'past passive' form of the verb. (37 words)
An additional nonstandard but widespread use of a singular participle combined with a plural auxiliary verb (known as polvikanje) signals a somewhat more friendly and less formal attitude while maintaining politeness: * Vi ga niste videli. (35 words)
Past passive participle Past active participle Basically this is formed by removing the infinitive ending and adding '-nut/nyt' (depending on vowel harmony ) and in some cases '-lut/lyt' '-sut/syt' '-rut/ryt'. (33 words)
How is it possible that in a meetings of hundred academics across the sector, lasting for hours, only about 8 to 12 academics actively participle? (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
English has an active participle, also called a present participle; and a passive participle, also called a past participle.
Here are some sentences and phrases further illustrating the formation and use of the present passive participle: This participle can also be used in other ways.
In verbs of types IV-VI, the 't' at the end of the stem is assimilated to the 'n': Present passive participle The present passive participle can be constructed from the 'past passive' form of the verb.
Past passive participle Past active participle Basically this is formed by removing the infinitive ending and adding '-nut/nyt' (depending on vowel harmony ) and in some cases '-lut/lyt' '-sut/syt' '-rut/ryt'.
The active participle of break is breaking, and the passive participle is broken.
The imperfective participle is not declined, whereas the perfect participle is declined for gender (though not in Bokmål) and number like strong, positive adjectives.
The other non-finite verb forms in English are the gerund or present participle (the -ing form), and the past participle – these are not considered infinitives.
Over here the past participle of the verb ‘to get’ is still ‘got’.
But there are other forums where grammar, dangling modifiers, and misplaced participles (or is it misplaced modifier and dangling participle?) occasionally crop up.
How is it possible that in a meetings of hundred academics across the sector, lasting for hours, only about 8 to 12 academics actively participle?
Active The first periphrastic conjugation uses the future participle.
All other verbs use the perfect tense (hê + past participle) for the past.
AmE, but not BrE, has forgot as a less common alternative to forgotten for the past participle of forget.
An additional nonstandard but widespread use of a singular participle combined with a plural auxiliary verb (known as polvikanje) signals a somewhat more friendly and less formal attitude while maintaining politeness: * Vi ga niste videli.
A nominal participle indicates one who participates in the action specified by the verbal root.
A notable exception to this is the use of the negating grammar form that coincides with negating the English present participle.
As always, the passive voice uses the perfect passive participle.
As a polite reference to a dead person, it has become common practice to use the participle form of "decease", as in the deceased; another noun form is decedent.
A similar sentence type in the past tense uses the passive participle with the ending -o, as in widziano ludzi ("people were seen").
Both forms are used with the verbal noun (equivalent to the English present participle ) to create compound tenses.
Common combinations with participle
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- past participle 19×
- passive participle 14×
- participle of 8×
- present participle 7×
- the participle 7×
- participle is 6×
- active participle 4×
- participle and 3×
- participle can 3×
- perfect participle 3×