participle

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Ontos is the Greek participle from the verb “to be” and means “being.”

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

From that innocent present participle “encouraging” a mighty fountain sprang.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

He is one of the three writers credited on Too Late for Love, none of whom seem to know how to use the past participle of light correctly.

From BBC • May 12, 2019

Dongling participle: “Beneath my desk, tied in knots and encased in rubber, I couldn’t untangle the adapter cords from the headphones.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2018

Unfusing a participle can make a sentence clumsy or pretentious: Any alleged evils of capitalism are simply the result of people’s being free to choose.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker