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The present participle in English is active... The present participle in English has the same form as the... The past participle has both active and passive uses... and the form of the participle is predictable by inspection of the dictionary form of the verb... In general the active participle describes a property of the syntactic subject of the verb from which it is derived... the active participle is a structure which describes the state of the syntactic subject after the action of... The past participle requires agreement with the gender of any preceding direct object... sometimes called a verbal adverb or adverbial participle as it does not decline... The past participle is used generally as an adjective meaning a finished action... participle system of Sireniki Eskimo... List of English simple past and past participle verb forms from myenglishteacher...

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