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unusual facts about participle


Afrihili

Participles are formed with mɛ-, further derived as nouns or adjectives (gerunds): mɛpini 'determinative', ɛmɛwako 'driver' (wako to drive).


Dangle

Dangling modifier (or dangling participle), a type of misplaced grammatical phrase

English subjunctive

The expression "the powers that be" however does not contain a subjunctive: it is a Biblical quotation from Romans 13:1 where it translates a present participle, using the archaic alternative indicative form "be" for "are".

Exoletus

Exoletus is a Latin term, the perfect passive participle of the verb exolescere, which means "to wear out with age."

Gothic verbs

In some cases a past participle is given without a gloss; this omission goes back to the source (Joseph Wright's Grammar of the Gothic Language) used to compile the table.

Papyrus 110

All other witnesses have εξερχομενοι, a nominative plural participle, normally interpreted as semitism for an imperative (Leave!).

Roger Pitiot

After graduate in 1976 He joined the Design team of the Salomon Group, and participle of the settling of SX 90 the first SALOMON ski boot Designed with Roger Tallon.

Uyghur dialects

M. Osmanov on the other hand has based his classification on two different parameters: the conjugation of the present-future tense and the form of the imperfect participle.


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