| 单词 | present participle |
| 例句 | "Nighing" is a curious archaism: it's not even a particularly melodious word, but perhaps the fact that it rhymes with another present participle that the poem resists, "sighing", underlies its haunting effect. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z The beautifully-paced last line summarises and completes the imagined scenario, but leaves the poem still in motion, ending as it began, with the present participle of a verb. Poem of the week: In a Garden by Amy Lowell 2013-07-29T10:12:18Z One slightly less endearing feature of Dunthorne's contemporary voice, however, is his strict avoidance of the present participle when using the verbs "to stand" or "to sit". Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne ? review 2011-07-29T21:58:00Z Dederer is continually trying — not in the adjectival sense, but as the present participle: showing us her thought process, correcting as she goes and experimenting with different forms. Face to Face With Culture’s ‘Monsters’ 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z He once sent her a brief memo dedicated entirely to the misuse of present participles. Rare Raymond Chandler essay includes writing, office tips 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z From that innocent present participle “encouraging” a mighty fountain sprang. The Intoxicating History of Gin 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z I don't think the present participle is any longer applicable. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z The Greek present participle does not, however, necessarily imply a pursuit now going on, but an habitual or characteristic pursuit, that by which the agent was known and designated: “Let the thief no longer steal!” The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z They also make the dative plural of the third declension in -εσσι, and the perfect participle active is declined like a present participle in -ων. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Hence we have such names as Bulling, Burning, Canning, Gambling, Halling, Harding, Hopping, Loving, Manning, Swearing, Telling, Walking, Willing, some of which have been popularly supposed to be from the present participle. Surnames as a Science 2011-09-26T02:00:27.097Z A minor mannerism of Whittier is his frequent use of the present participle in ing, with the verb to be; "is flowing," "is shining," etc. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z In the next line it occurs as a present participle. Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance 2011-07-27T02:00:29.703Z The future compound with the present participle is used when we wish to mark that an action will be going on at some particular time in the future. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z Generally speaking, the first two persons are formed from the verbal noun in b, which is by origin a future passive participle, and the third person is formed from the present participle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The present tense is lay; the imperfect tense and past participle are laid; and the present participle laying. Every-Day Errors of Speech I have found that many suppose it to imply present participles used as nouns, instead of nouns of verbal derivation. The Lay of Havelok the Dane The sense requires lay, i.e. the 3rd p. s. pt. t. indic., but properly the word is the present participle, lying. Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance 2011-07-27T02:00:29.703Z For our preposition "during" he generally uses the accusative of duration, or the prepositional expression en la daŭro de, or simply en, or turns the phrase by employing an adverbial present participle. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z In Mth. the present definite and the imperfect are formed by conjugating the present or past tense respectively of the auxiliary verb with the present participle; thus marait chī, I am striking. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The present tense is lie; the imperfect tense is lay; the past participle is lain; the present participle is lying. Every-Day Errors of Speech To make the decasyllabic verse, the poet takes the liberty of prefixing to the present participle the y which properly belongs only to the past. Minor Poems by Milton Some adjectives, principally those from present participles, have the masculine and neuter terminations i and u in the singular, and in the plural i for both genders. The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations How is a compound of a present participle and a preposition treated? Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 And is here used to connect the past participle washed with the present participle drowning, and the sentence is thereby rendered clumsy. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories Present tense, raise; imperfect tense and past participle, raised; present participle, raising. Every-Day Errors of Speech This “pleasure” and the next—sometime walking—are introduced with present participles. Minor Poems by Milton Garnett asserts that the present participle in -ande is “a certain criterion of a Northern dialect subsequent to the thirteenth century.” Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century How is a compound of a present participle and a noun written? Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 Shall we say, then, that verbs beginning with a consonant have a present participle, while those that begin with a vowel have none? Elements of Gaelic Grammar Present tense, rise; imperfect tense, rose; past participle, risen; present participle, rising. Every-Day Errors of Speech The present participle, called also the active participle and the participle in -ing, is formed from the original word by adding -ing; as, move, moving. A Handbook of the English Language In many such cases this negative clause can be translated literally into English, and it is the usual form of negation with an infinitive or present participle. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature Unfortunately the English language has another infinitive which very much resembles a present participle—the infinitive ending in -ing; e.g., rescuing. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing There was formerly no distinction between the verbal adjective and the present participle; but the Academy lays down one not very easy to grasp. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Present tense, sit; imperfect tense and past participle, sat; present participle, sitting. Every-Day Errors of Speech According to these, the -ing in words like rising is not the -ing of the present participle; neither has it originated in the Anglo-Saxon -end. A Handbook of the English Language The rest as the imperfect of bos, to be, with the present participle. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature In remainder and remnant we have the infinitive and present participle of an obsolete Old French verb derived from Lat. remanēre. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) When such a sentence as the latter is followed by a present participle, there arises ambiguity. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition Present tense, set; imperfect tense and past participle, set; present participle, setting. Every-Day Errors of Speech The present participle, or the participle in -ing, must be considered in respect to its relations with the substantive in -ing. A Handbook of the English Language The rest as in the present tense of bos, to be, followed by the present participle. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature Recreant, the present participle of Old Fr. recreire, Vulgar Lat. *recredere, to change one's faith, contains very much the same idea; cf. miscreant, lit. unbeliever. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) The present participle of the verb to provide is sometimes vulgarly used for the conjunction provided, as in this sentence from the "London Queen": "Society may be congratulated, ... providing that," etc. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Present tense, wake; imperfect and past participle, waked; present participle, waking. Every-Day Errors of Speech The present participle denotes action or being continued, but not finished. Sketch of Grammar of the Chippeway Languages To Which is Added a Vocabulary of some of the Most Common Words It is a participial adjective from pacha, place, especially the world, and camac, present participle of camani, I animate, from which also comes camakenc, the soul, and means animating the world. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Here writing, the present participle of write, describes myself in my present employment, and yet retains its action as a verb, and terminates on lecture as the thing written. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. When the present participle is used substantively, in sentences like the following, it is preceded by the definite article and followed by the preposition of. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. This is the termination of the present participle and verbal adjective derived from verbs in -a. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence The present participle active is formed by -ant. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar In the West Midland, the present participle frequently ends in -and, as in Northumbrian, especially in the Northern part of the Midland area. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day Whoever is acquainted with the formation of the present participle in other languages, can carry out the suggestions I have made, and fully comprehend my meaning. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Happily we are still able to use the present participle, not the past. Vanishing England The present participle with the definite article the before it, becomes a noun, and must have the preposition of after it. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The present participle passive is formed by -at. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar FALSING—the present participle of the verb "to false"; Comedy of Errors, Act II., Grain and Chaff from an English Manor And his use of the present participle, "coming" up, clearly connects this view with the preceding verse, and shows it to be an event transpiring simultaneously with the going into captivity of the previous beast. The United States in the Light of Prophecy The present participle is sometimes given with the principal parts. Composition-Rhetoric The present participle in ing, retains the y that i may not be doubled; as, carry, carrying. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The word Esperanto is the present participle of the verb esperi—"to hope," used substantially. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar Examples: "These appear to be instances of the present participle being used passively." The Grammar of English Grammars Mrs. Hitchcock still slurred the present participle and indulged in other idiomatic freedoms that endeared her to Sommers. The Web of Life The present participle is used for the formation of the progressive conjugation; the past participle, for the formation of the compound or perfect tenses. Composition-Rhetoric The present participle refers to some noun or pronoun denoting the subject or actor. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures A verb is conjugated in the +progressive form+ by joining its present participle to the different forms of the verb be. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition And Dr. Perley, who also calls the compound of being a "present participle," argues thus: "Being built signifies an action, finished; and how can Is being built, signify an action unfinished?" The Grammar of English Grammars The progressive form may be made by filling all the blanks with the present participle of some verb. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Recourse to the English present participle has been avoided as much as possible. Poems and Songs The present participle refers to some noun or pronoun denoting the subject or actor; as, "I see a boy running." English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The present participle is not here given as a principal part. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition And thus I have given you my opinion concerning what is called the present participle. The Grammar of English Grammars In the following example the present participle is used for the infinitive mood: "It is easy distinguishing the rude fragment of a rock from the splinter of a statue." How to Speak and Write Correctly In many verbs," he adds, "the present participle also is used in a passive sense; as, These things are doing, were doing, &c.; The Grammar of English Grammars By defining the present participle in conjunction with the verb, we have an imperfect tense in the expression, were travelling. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures For, besides being an innovation, it is less convenient than the use of the present participle in the passive sense. The Grammar of English Grammars |
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