The important idea should not be placed in a which clause, or a when clause, or a participial phrase.
A sentence containing a dangling participle may be corrected (1) by giving the word to which the participle refers a conspicuous position in the sentence, or (2) by replacing the participial phrase by some other construction.
Bowing his head, the prisoner listened to the verdict of the jury [participial phrase].
Discriminating writers place minor ideas in subordinate clauses, consign still less important ideas to participial or prepositional phrases, and omit trivial details altogether.
The pronoun used in the conjugation with tense signs may also be prefixed to a simple adjective, and the pronoun used in the conjugation without tense sign is suffixed to this, and the participial ending is then added.
The conjugation with the tense sign is changed by a participial suffix into a verbal, and then the pronoun is suffixed, as in the conjugation without the tense sign.
The other two stems are the «perfect stem» and the «participial stem».
The future active participle is formed by adding «-ūrus» to the base of the participial stem.
From it we get the participial stem on which are formed the future active infinitive and all the passive perfects.
The present active and future passive participles are formed from the present stem, and the future active and perfect passive participles are formed from the participial stem.
The base of the participial stem is found by dropping «-us» from the perfect passive participle.
This accounts for the participial form forlorn, or lost, in New High German verloren.
To say I have drunk, is to use an ambiguous expression; since drunk may be either a participle minus its termination, or a præterite with a participial sense.
Walker attributes the change of accent to the influence of the participial termination -ing.
The participle, with its modifiers and such other words as are attached to it, is sometimes called a +participial phrase+.
Point out the present participles, and also the verbal nouns in -ing (participial nouns).
Many participial and other adjective phrases come under this head.
In such instances, two methods of analysis are allowable, as in the case of participial phrases (§ 469).
The participial closing of a letter, that is, ending a letter with a participial phrase, weakens the entire effect of the letter.
Froze is the imperfect of the verb freeze, while frozen is a participial adjective.
This word may be the participial adjective of buā, prepare, or the past participle of bindan, bind.
What is the case of the object inparticipial construction?
Where a participial construction is used as the object of a verb, the noun or pronoun in the object should be in the possessive case and not in the objective.
In (e) the participial phrase restricts the application of country to one particular country; but in (f) the phrase describes without limiting.
Care is needed, in studying these last-named words, to distinguish between a participle that forms part of a verb, and a participle or participial adjective that belongs to a noun.
For participial and infinitive phrases, see further Secs.
Participle, or participial phrase: "I can imagine him pushing firmly on, trusting the hearts of his countrymen.
SWIFT About, and the participial prepositions concerning, respecting, regarding, mean with reference to.
Rewrite the other four sentences so as to correct the careless use of the participial phrase.
In these the participial phrases connect closely with the verb, and there is no difficulty in seeing that they modify.
The original e reappears in the participial stems.
What shall we do when of after the participial noun is objectionable?
The terms so converted form the class ofparticipial adjectives.
This is not well stated; because these are participial nouns, and not "participles.
Even the participial noun of this form, though it actually drops the distinction of voice, is awkward and apparently incongruous in such a relation.
Murray's code a paragraph which appears to be contradictory to his own doctrine, as suggested in the fifth observation above; and not only so, it is irreconcilable with any proper distinction between the participle and the participial noun.
A participial expression with the same meaning is seen in ‘fowerti winter vten led,’ GE 3348.
The participial phrase is quite in the manner of the author.
A participialphrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject.
Participial phrases preceded by a conjunction or by a preposition, nouns in apposition, adjectives, and adjective phrases come under the same rule if they begin the sentence.
A participialphrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject 13 III.
The verbs are in the participial form, which emphasises the notion of habitual action.
The participialconstruction is in them changed for finite verbs.
In this situation, introducing is a participial noun; it may take an article before it, like any other noun, and yet govern an objective, like any transitive verb.
Participles and participial adjectives may be used like Adjectives, as equivalents for phrases containing the Relative.
Participles, Adjectives, Participial Adjectives, and Nouns may be used as equivalents for phrases containing the Relative.
The licence of inventing participial adjectives by adding -ing to a noun, is almost restricted to poetry.
Otherwise it generally has its proper participial meaning, e.
This gradual change in the language is especially brought out in the usage of the participial forms of the verb.
This participial phrase qualifies the verb, venus, like an adverb.
This simplicity of the Esperanto verb is entirely due to its full participial system.
