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The Periphrastic Future Infinitive is often used, especially in the Passive, even in case of verbs which have the Participial Stem; as,— spērō fore ut hostēs vincantur, I hope the enemy will be conquered.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

They are formed from the Participial Stem, and end in -tō or -sō.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

Participial and adjective phrases and adverb phrases out of their natural order should be separated from the rest of the sentence by commas.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

The Perfect Passive Participle, from which the Participial Stem is derived by dropping -us, is formed:— 1.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

Participial Construction—A participle and its modifiers used as the subject or object of a verb.

From Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)