perfect participle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of perfect participle
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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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 is formed by combining having with a past participle; as, having gone.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
This tense prefixes the auxiliaries, may have, can have, or must have, to the perfect participle: thus, Singular.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
The perfect tense of a verb is formed by combining the auxiliary have with its perfect participle: therefore the sentence should be written thus, "I have seen many a one:" Note 3.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
It ought to be, "I saw him," according to Note 3, Have saw is also erroneous, the imperfect tense being employed instead of the perfect participle.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
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