present participles

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of present participle.
  present participle

  noun

  a participle, in English having the suffix -ing, that expresses repetition or duration of an activity or event: used as an adjective, as in the growing weeds and the setting sun, and also in forming progressive verb constructions, as in The weeds are growing and The sun was setting.

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present participles

He once sent her a brief memo dedicated entirely to the misuse of present participles.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 22, 2021

In spite of his classical learning, which he still pursues with delight, he lards his speech with outmoded slang and zealously drops the g's of his present participles.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have found that many suppose it to imply present participles used as nouns, instead of nouns of verbal derivation.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

Some adjectives, principally those from present participles, have the masculine and neuter terminations i and u in the singular, and in the plural i for both genders.

From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Daniel Garrison Brinton

I E -ma, -mana, -man formed adjectives, present participles and nouns; I E akman stone of ak, A S iman; Dak imni stone.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by A. W. (Andrew Woods) Williamson

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