perfect participle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of perfect participle
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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They also make the dative plural of the third declension in -εσσι, and the perfect participle active is declined like a present participle in -ων.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
The regular passive verb to be loved, which is formed by adding the perfect participle loved to the neuter verb to be, is conjugated in the following manner:
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel
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 perfect participle is that which ends commonly in ed or en, and implies a completion of the being, action, or passion.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
The perfect participle is formed by combining having with a past participle; as, having gone.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
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