perfect participle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of perfect participle
First recorded in 1860–65
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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 Thomas Embly Osmun
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
In this, he errs no less grossly than in his idea of the "action or the suffering" expressed by "a perfect participle," as cited in OBS. 5th above; namely, that it must have ceased.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
I. A regular verb is a verb that forms the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed; as, love, loved, loving, loved.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
All Passive Verbs are formed by adding the perfect participle of an active-transitive verb, to the neuter verb to be.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
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