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The same word is a
participle or a participial adjective, according to its manner of
meaning. The preceding illustration, however, shows that this
distinction is founded on a very slight shade of difference in the
meaning of the two. The following examples will enable you to
distinguish the one from the other.
_Participles. Participial adjectives_.
See the sun _setting_. See the _setting_ sun.
See the moon _rising_. See the _rising_ moon.
The wind is _roaring_. Hear the _roaring_ wind.
The twig is _broken_. The _broken_ twig fell.
The vessel _anchored_ in the The _anchored_ vessel spreads
bay, lost her mast. her sail.
The _present_ or _imperfect_ participle is known by its ending in _ing_;
as, float_ing_, rid_ing_, hear_ing_, see_ing_. These are derived from
the verbs, _float, ride, hear_, and _see_. But some words ending in
_ing_ are not participles; such as _evening, morning, hireling, sapling,
uninteresting, unbelieving, uncontrolling_. When you parse a word ending
in _ing_, you should always consider whether it comes from a verb or
not.


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