--What rule applies in parsing a _present_ participle?--What
Rule in parsing a participial adjective?--Do participles vary in their
terminations in order to agree with their subject or actor?--What Rule
applies in parsing a noun in the _objective case_, governed by a
participle?--Do participles ever become nouns?--Give examples.
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PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES.
Participles are formed by adding to the verb the termination _ing,
ed_, or _en_. _Ing_ signifies the same as the noun _being_. When
postfixed to the noun-state of the verb, the compound word thus
formed, expresses a continued state of the verbal denotement. It
implies that what is meant by the verb, is _being_ continued. _En_
is an alteration of _an_, the Saxon verbalizing adjunct; _ed_ is a
contraction of _dede_; and the terminations _d_ and _t_, are a
contraction of _ed_. Participles ending in _ed_ or _en_, usually
denote the _dodo, dede, doed, did, done_, or _finished_ state of
what is meant by the verb. The book is _printed_. It is a _print-ed_
or _print-done_ book, or such a one as the _done_ act of _printing_
has made it.
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