technicalSLG one of the forms of a verb that are used to make tenses. In English, presentparticiples end in -ing and past participles usually end in -ed or -en. 分词
Examples from the Corpus
participle• He: True, in many cases you can get away with using a participle instead of a gerund.• There are no dangling participles or misplacedmodifiers.
Originparticiple
(1300-1400)Old FrenchLatinparticipium, from particeps ( → PARTICIPATE); because it takes the part of both verb and adjective