Meaning of present-participial | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C2]

Examples

“Noticin that you sometimes print⟳ letters and comments on the subject of improvin the American language, permit⟳ me to announce⟳ (hopin that the sympathizin will aid in promotin) the project of dispensin with the nasal “ng” sound⟳ when pronouncin the present-participial affix “ing,” and correspondinly dispensin with the letter “g” when spellin it.”

“[D]id you know⟳ […] that “restaurant” until about 1760 wasn’t a noun but a present-participial adjective meaning only fortifying or restorative, and “applied to certain bouillons and eggnogs consumed to restore⟳ one’s strength after an illness or great physical exertion”?”

“The absurdity of their situation is caught from Sisko’s point⟳ of view⟳ in a typical Leonard present-participial sentence: “Riding in the trunk of a car with an escaped convict, chatting, passing the time, the car bumping over back roads, the floor beneath them hard, ungiving.””

“Present-Participial Danglers. In the sentences that follow⟳, mispositioned words have⟳ caused grammatical blunders. The classic example occurs when the wrong noun begins the main clause, that is, a noun other than the one expected by the reader after digesting the introductory participial phrase.”

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