Participle
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A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb andadjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun,but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In thesentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear;exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, andexhaustedare participles.By a participle, [I understand] a verb in an adjectival aspect.Earle.
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