| 词汇 | present-participle |
| 释义 | present participle noun[ C ] uk /ˌprez.ənt pɑː ˈtɪs.ɪ.pəl/ us /ˌprez.ənt ˈpɑːr.tɪ.sɪ.pəl/ a form of a verb that in English ends in -ing and comes after another verb to show continuous action. It is used to form the present continuous: 现在分词 In the sentences "The children are watching television", "The weather is getting colder", and "I heard him singing", "watching", "getting", and "singing" are present participles.在句子 The children are watching television， The weather is getting colder 和 I heard him singing 中，watching，getting 和 singing 是现在分词。 In English, the present continuous tense is formed from the auxiliary 'be' and the present participle. In the sentence 'Someone is watching you.', 'watching' is the present participle. Linguistics: verb forms, tenses & types of verbs accusative art bare infinitive bent continuous copula finite gerund modality non-finite non-progressive passive passivization perfective phrasal verb subjunctive the active voice the future perfect the past continuous the past tense present participle | American Dictionarypresent participle noun[ C ] us/ˈprez·ənt ˈpɑr·təˌsɪp·əl/ grammar a form of a verb that ends in "ing" and comes after another verb to show continuous action: In the sentence "The children are watching television," "watching" is a present participle. Examples of present participlepresent participle This seems entirely reasonable for nominal gerunds (cases where a verb, usually a presentparticiple, takes on the role of a simple noun). It is unlikely that a presentparticiple could be agentive by itself without reference to a participant playing a role in some event. The only form of be that was excluded was the presentparticiple being. On these accounts, there is no neutralization of gerund and presentparticiple : they are simply independent entries. If following is a preposition, then the sequence it introduces is a prepositional phrase, but if following is a presentparticiple then that sequence is a nonfinite clause. For example, we can call a presentparticiple when used as a noun 'a presentparticiple used as a noun' or we can call it a gerund. It strikes me as unusual that the presentparticiple—"choosing"—is used. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The three non-finite moods are the infinitive, past participle, and presentparticiple. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There are four non-finite verb forms: infinitive, passive infinitive, and the two participles perfective/past participle and imperfective/presentparticiple. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Therefore, "wesan" is used as the past, imperative, and presentparticiple versions of "sn", and does not have a separate meaning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Instead of the infinitive, one uses the presentparticiple, and then declines it corresponding to gender, number, case and article of the nominal phrase. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The presentparticiple form of a verb may function as a noun, in which case it is referred to as a gerund. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The past participle is "been", and the presentparticiple and gerund forms are regular: "being". From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Therefore, "wesan" is used as the past, imperative, and presentparticiple versions of "sindon", and does not have a separate meaning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. But the gerund "-ing" and the presentparticiple "-ing" actually have different etymologies. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of present participle These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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