Participle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PARTICIPLE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a word having the characteristics of both verb and adjective
• a word formed from a verb (e.g. going, gone, being, been) and used as an adjective (e.g. working woman, burnt toast) or a noun (e.g. good breeding). In English participles are also used to make compound verb forms (e.g. is going, has been).
• A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles.
• a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses
ADJECTIVE:
• Anything that partakes of the nature of different things.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a word having the characteristics of both verb and adjective; an English verbal form that has the function of an adjective and at the same time shows such verbal features as tense and voice and capacity to take an object

Words related to PARTICIPLE

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Words that contain PARTICIPLE

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How to use PARTICIPLE in a sentence

• The participle, I think, should be taken as a distinct part of speech, and have its own definition.
• What is a PARTICIPLE, and how is it generally formed? 2.
• How is the first or imperfect participle formed? 7.
• A Noun or a Pronoun made the object of an active-transitive verb or participle, is governed by it in the objective case.
• In respect to construction, no terms differ more than a participle which governs the possessive case, and a participle which does not.
• What case does an active-transitive verb or participle govern? 6.
• What participle is often understood after nouns put absolute? 112.
• What is said of the correction of those examples in which a needless article or possessive is put before the participle? 10.
• What is remarked of different cases used indiscriminately before the participle or verbal noun? 28.
• Among those who thus treat this construction of the participle, the chief, I think, are Butler, Hurt, Weld, Wells, and S.
• You mean the distinction between the participle and the noun? Mr.
• The perfect participle denotes action or being, finished.
• The very form of our past participle is invented to indicate an event in past time.
• This word probably needs its past tense and participle to be securely fixed before it will be used.
• Hung is the junior form of the participle, and is now used for everything but man.
• Here the Participle is often equivalent to a subordinate clause.

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