"Past participle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and Motley go together, though all three of them may be local (the mid-lea, the middle-cot, and the moat-lea). Medley mixed, is the Anglo-French past participle of Old Fr. mesler (meler). Motley is of unknown origin, but it was ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley
... and tenses correspond exactly to those of the French, and the famous rule of the past participle is identical with the one that prevails in the ...
— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer
... certain definite instruction may be given. And, but, for, or, and nor are called cooerdinating conjunctions; that is, they are used to connect words, phrases, and clauses of equal rank. If one uses and to connect a noun with a verb, or a past participle with a present participle, or a verb in the indicative mood with one in the subjunctive, he perverts the conjunction and produces a consequent effect of awkwardness or lack of clearness in the ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... masculine subject, monosyllabic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct feminine object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past participle with complementary masculine agent) in the passive voice: the continued product of seminators by generation: the continual production of semen by distillation: the futility of triumph or protest or vindication: the inanity of extolled virtue: the lethargy of nescient ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... feasts of the Bacabs Acantun are described in Landa's work. The name he does not explain. I take it to be acaan, past participle of actal, to erect, and tun, stone. But it may have another meaning. The word acan meant wine, or rather, mead, the intoxicating hydromel the natives manufactured. The god of this drink also bore the name Acan ("ACAN; el Dios del vino que es Baco," Diccionario del Convento de ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton
... the learned antiquary. There is no such nor any other title to the original. It is simply called in the first line u tzolan katun, the arrangement or order of the katuns. The word tzolan is a verbal noun, the past participle of the passive voice of tzol, which means to put in order, to arrange, and is in the genitive of the thing possessed, as indicated by the pronoun u. Literally, the phrase ...
— The Maya Chronicles - Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 • Various |
