nounal

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"The agent of a _nounal_ verb [i.e. participle] is never expressed," but that, "Sometimes it [the _nounal_ or _gerundial_ verb] is _qualified_, in its _nounal capacity_, by a possessive _adnoun_ indicative _of its agent_ as a verb; as, there is _nothing like one's_ BEING useful he doubted

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  1. Of or pertaining to a noun; having the character of a noun. [Rare.] The numerals have been inserted in this place as a sort of appendix to the nounal group, because of their manifest affinity to that group. J. Earle.

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  • The name _participle_ is as true to its etymology when applied to the nounal use of the verb as when applied to the adjectival use. —  Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
  • The nounal and the adjectival uses of participial forms we distinguish very sharply.] one sharing the nature of the verb and that of the adjective; the other, the nature of the verb and that of the noun. —  Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
  • +Participles+ adjectival as adjective modifiers as attribute complements as mere adjectives as mere nouns as objective complements as prepositions as principal word in a phrase definition of expansion of forms of in independent phrases misuse of modified by _a_ and _the_ modified by a possessive nounal, called _gerunds, infinitives, verbal nouns_ place of punctuation of used in slurring —  Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
  • "The agent of a _nounal_ verb [i.e. participle] is never expressed," but that, "Sometimes it [the _nounal_ or _gerundial_ verb] is _qualified_, in its _nounal capacity_, by a possessive _adnoun_ indicative _of its agent_ as a verb; as, there is _nothing like one's_ BEING useful he doubted —  The Grammar of English Grammars
  • If "_the participle used as a noun_, still retains its verbal properties," it is, manifestly, not a noun, but a participle still; not a participial noun, but a _nounal participle_, whether the thing be allowable or not. —  The Grammar of English Grammars
 

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