perfect participle

American  

noun

1. past participle.

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perfect participle British  

noun

1. another name for past participle

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Etymology

Origin of perfect participle

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

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perfect participle

I desire that you may live here, Nee eme iuide cáteo naquém, in which cáteo is an active perfect participle, and the verb naquém, I desire, ever requires this construction.

From Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. by Smith, Buckingham

The imperfect tense and the perfect participle of the verb to plead are both pleaded and not plead.

From 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. by Osmun, Thomas Embly

Flown is the perfect participle of fly, flying; flowed, of flow, flowing.

From Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected by Anonymous

The perfect participle belongs, like an adjective, to some noun or pronoun, expressed or understood; as, "I saw the boy abused."

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

Besides, the definition of an irregular verb, as given in any of our grammars, seems to exclude all such as may form the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold