| 11. | Present participles may come to be used as pure adjectives ( see Types of participle ).
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| 12. | The distinction between gerund and present participles is not recognised in modern reference grammars, since many uses are ambiguous.
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| 13. | Homo sapiens isn't a plural; that sapiens is a Latin present participle that distinguishes humans as the thinking hominids.
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| 14. | Or as a present participle, as in " How long are we going to be enduring this freedom ?"
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| 15. | The verbal noun covers many of the same notions as infinitives, gerunds and present participles in other Indo-European languages.
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| 16. | The present participle is always progressive in meaning, and indicates that something is performing the action as the subject.
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| 17. | There are three types of nouns that can be derived from verbs : present participle, past participle and verbal noun.
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| 18. | The present participle, which is less common, is formed by adding F / G "-ande " to the present stem.
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| 19. | The past participle is " been ", and the present participle and gerund forms are regular : " being ".
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| 20. | Americans seem to use the present participle more often . done ) 00 : 19, 22 June 2006 ( UTC)
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