Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, consisting of, or formed with a participle.
- n. A participle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the nature and use of a participle.
- Formed from or consisting of a participle: as, a participial noun; a participial adjective.
- n. A word formed from a ver's, and sharing the verbal with the noun or adjective construction.
Wiktionary
- adj. grammar of, relating to, or being a participle
- n. grammar a participle
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle.
- n. A participial word.
WordNet 3.0
Etymologies
- From Latin participiālis, from participium ("participle"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin participiālis, from participium, participle; see participle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A grumpy right-wing pundit followed a few days later with the phrase in participial or gerund form: “Having It All.””
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“Both words are often used — and often interchangeably — as participial adjectives (oriented and orientated).”
“It hasn't turned out to contain hidden depths, as Alexander Frater's Chasing the Monsoon or Joe Kane's Running the Amazon did, to choose two participial equivalents.”
“Master these tricky subjects: verbs • modal auxiliaries • passive voice • participial adjectives • perfect tenses • the passive form with get * subject-verb agreement * and much more”
Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners « Books « Literacy News
“What do you think about participial phrases and subordinate CLAUSES?”
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
“So I try to make my courses more than just a series of how-to sessions about comma placement, subordinate clauses, and present participial phrases.”
The Huffington Post: Joseph Smigelski: Critical Thinking Is Essential in Every College Class
“It seems unlikely that it represents an animate plural ending, contradicted by the existence of tularu with its extra participial ending -u.”
“This time the snare of participial juncture is smoothly mutual and binding, rather than viscous and thickening — as in”
“Marked by the thickened release of "good" from "growing," what we find inscribed from within narrative time is both a phrase for cumulative social improvement and an asymptote of its visionary teleology as well, Tennyson secularized: the immediate "growing betterment" (participial adjective plus noun) as well as, hard on its heels, the "growing [ultimately] good”
“Similarly, whenever German offers a quick string of very brief sentences or main clauses, English would tend to subordinate some of them as present participles, which German seldom uses to introduce clauses, limiting participial clauses to extremely lofty, highfalutin diction.”
Simon & Schuster: The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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