There are four non-finite verb forms : infinitive, passive infinitive, and the two participles perfective / past participle and imperfective / present participle.
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There are enough similar-sounding movie titles using the " ing " formation to hold a " Present Participle Proper Name " film festival.
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The expression Romans 13 : 1, where it translates a present participle using the archaic alternative indicative form " be " for " are ".
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The present participle and gerund " in " are now usually but may still be differentiated and in Southern Scots and, and North Northern Scots.
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The English present participle is never irregular in pronunciation, but " singeing " irregularly retains the " e " to distinguish it from " singing ".
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:To further clarify, the Latin present participle refers to people who do the activities of the verbs, and not to the verb actions in the abstract.
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More specifically, it consists of a noun or pronoun and either a past participle, a present participle, an adjective, or an appositive noun, all in the ablative.
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These merged into a single form, written "-ing ", but not necessarily spoken as such the pronunciation may be inherited from the former distinct present participle form.
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In contrast English contains just two : the present participle ( " the eating cow " ) and the past participle ( " the eaten cow " ).
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The other non-finite verb forms in English are the gerund or present participle ( the "-ing " form ), and the past participle these are not considered infinitives.
