I take it to be acaan, past participle of actal, to erect, and tun, stone.

Tooke's notion of grammatical time, appears to have been in several respects a strange one: he accords with those who call this a past participle, and denies to the other not only the name and notion of a tense, but even the general idea of time.

6.The Perfect participle of transitive verbs, being used in the formation of passive verbs, is sometimes called the Passive participle.

6.The Perfect participle of transitive verbs, being used in the formation of passive verbs, is sometimes called the Passive participle.

Nor is that entirely true which some assert, "that this participle in the active is only found in combination;" that, "Whenever it stands alone to be parsed as a participle, it is passive.

Nor is that entirely true which some assert, "that this participle in the active is only found in combination;" that, "Whenever it stands alone to be parsed as a participle, it is passive.

"Rebelled," in the following examples, cannot with any propriety be called a passive participle: "Rebelled, did I not send them terms of peace, Which not my justice, but my mercy asked?"Pollok, x, 253. "Arm'd with thy might, rid Heav'n of these rebell'd, To their prepar'd ill mansion driven down.

7.The third participle has most generally been called the Compound, or the Compound perfect.

On the very next page, unless there is a misprint in several editions, he calls the Second participle the "imperfect;" saying, "The whole of the passive voice in English is formed by the auxiliary verb to be, and the participle imperfect; as, I am loved, I was loved, &c."

Many old writers erroneously represent the participle in ing as always active, and the participle in ed or en as always passive; and some, among whom is Buchanan, making no distinction between the simple perfect loved and the compound having loved, place the latter with the former, and call it passive also.

Now it is, doubtless, the participle, that gives to these their perfectness; while diversity in the auxiliaries makes their difference of time.

The author himself names the participle in reference to a usage which he says, "should not be taken into consideration;" and names it absurdly too; for he calls that "the auxiliary," which is manifestly the principal term.

There are, in the popular use of participles, certain mixed constructions which are reprehensible; yet it is the peculiar nature of a participle, to participate the properties of other parts of speech,of the verb and adjective,of the verb and noun,or sometimes, perhaps, of all three.

A participle immediately preceded by a preposition, is not converted into a noun, but remains a participle, and therefore retains its adverb, and also its government of the objective case; as, "I thank you for helping him so seasonably."

13.To distinguish the participle from the participial noun, the learner should observe the following four things: 1.

A participle is a word derived from a verb, participating the properties of a verb, and of an adjective or a noun; and is generally formed by adding ing, d, or ed, to the verb.

2. The perfect participle is that which ends commonly in ed or en, and implies a completion of the being, action, or passion.

A participle is a word derived from a verb, participating the properties of a verb, and of an adjective or a noun; and is generally formed by adding ing, d, or ed, to the verb.

2. An irregular verb is a verb that does not form the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed.

Attending is an imperfect participle, from the regular active-transitive verb, attend, attended, attending, attended.

A participle is a word derived from a verb, participating the properties of a verb, and of an adjective or a noun; and is generally formed by adding ing, d, or ed, to the verb.

The objective case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which usually denotes the object of a verb, participle, or preposition.

[FORMULE.Not proper, because the preterit verb mistook is here used for the perfect participle.

[FORMULE.Not proper, because the participle stript is terminated in t.

"A participle is a part of speech derived of a verb.