11 Facts About Present participle

In linguistics, a participle is a nonfinite verb form that has some of the characteristics and functions of both verbs and adjectives.

In non-Indo-European languages, 'Present participle' has been applied to forms that are alternatively regarded as converbs, gerunds, gerundives, transgressives, and nominalised verbs in complement clauses.

Linguistic term, past Present participle, was coined circa 1798 based on its participial form, whose morphology equates to the regular form of preterite verbs.

The present participle is often associated with the progressive aspect, while the past participle is linked with the perfect aspect or passive voice.

In English, the present participle is essentially an active participle, while the past participle has both active and passive uses.

An adverbial Present participle plays the role of an adverbial in the sentence in which it appears, whereas an adjectival Present participle plays the role of an adjective phrase.

Perfect Present participle is usually passive in meaning, and thus mainly formed from transitive verbs, for example fractus "broken", missus "sent ".

Present participle often describes the circumstances attending the main verb.

The past Present participle is used generally as an adjective referring to a finished action, in which case its ending changes according to gender and number.

For example, in dialects of the Levant, the active Present participle is a structure that describes the state of the syntactic subject after the action of the verb from which it derives has taken place.

The active participle takes a variety of syntactic roles, such as a verb in present tense, a noun, and an adjective.