types of participle

It's been a while since I put up a big list of grammatical terms, so here are a list of the different types of participle. A participle is that part of speech where a verb is used as a noun or an adjective. If the verb is "drive", then the participle is "driver" or "while driving".

In second year Greek, a number of other uses for the participle are introduced:

• adjectival - the driver


• adverbial (temporal - when he was driving / causal - because he was driving) -


• telic / final - indicates purpose: he was there to drive


• conditional - used in the if clause of a conditional statement - if you drive


• concessive - though we were driving


• instrumental - by driving


• complementary - completes the idea of the man verb in the sentence: I keep on driving


• imperatival - always be driving


• periphrastic - this one is a bit trickier: it's used with the verb "to be" to express when the participial action is taking place; you have been driving


• of attendant circumstance - introduce a new action, and focus attention back on the main verb in the sentence: drive, and sort out your problems


• participial absolute - a separate clause to the rest of the sentence: after he had driven, they gathered in the car park

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