meaning of participle
1. A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles.
2. Anything that partakes of the nature of different things.
3. a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses
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