Sentences with phrase «[present participle»

«When you go to the bank to deposit all the profits your sales letter produced, nobody will ask whether you dangled a participle or split an infinitive,» he concludes.

Persecuting, present participle of per - se - cute (Verb) 1.

Until then, keep your decisions limited to your dangling participle.

Fact: Origin: 1530 — 40; < Latin factum something done, deed, noun use of neuter of factus done, past participle of facere to do1

First, the adjective and noun by grace, and second, the participle you have been saved.

'» While the feminine participle «omeneth refers to a woman who nurses a child (2 Sam 4:4; Ruth 4:16) the masculine participle «omen can simply designate a male «guardian,» «attendant,» or «foster father» of children (i.e., someone who cares for all their needs), as the very example cited by the rabbi from Isa 49:23 indicates (so also 2 Kings 10:1, 5).

The word «Redeeming» may also function as a present participle, with «God» as the object.

We could go on and provide numerous similar examples, not just from the writings of John, but from other New Testament authors as well, but we have seen from just a couple of examples that present participles in connection with perfect tense verbs do not clearly indicate anything about the timing of one compared to the other.

The fourth division, which is called the correlative of the abstract attributes, is made up of present participles of the abstract attributes of the third division — powerful (overpowering), willing, knowing, living, hearing, seeing, speaking.

I don't want to get too lost in the technical weeds on this text, which would be easy to do, since there is a great debate among top Greek scholars about how to understand the «time» of present participles in Greek.

For now, let me just say that 1 John 5:1 is not the only place in John's writings where he pairs a present participle with a perfect tense verb.

John writes that «he who does not believe [present participle] God has made Him a liar [perfect tense].»

The word for «believe» is in the present tense participle, and the verb for «born» is in the perfect tense.

The perfect tense, «making God a liar,» is a result of the present participle, «not believing.»

In John 3:18, for example, John quotes Jesus as saying, «He who believes [present participle] in Him is not condemned [perfect tense verb].»

The word Pharisee defined from the Aramaic passive participle and in the Greek both mean, separated — «the separated ones.»

The root of the participle Luke uses is xaris, meaning grace.

Perhaps «rule» or, better, the active participle «ruling» would come nearest to the original, but constant reference to the «ruling of God» would be both clumsy and subject to the facetiousness of reading the genitive as a genitive of object!

Using an orderly arrangement, it has all the crucial paradigms for nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and participles, as well as helpful lists of prepositions, irregular verbs, and other details frequently needed for Greek translation.

Perhaps this is why Whitehead calls feelings «vectors» (PR 19/28 and passim): they carry or convey (from the Latin vectus, past participle of veho, to carry or convey) the individuality of past actual entities to the present actual entity.8

If he says, «Look over there at my beautiful, scantily clad, periphrastic future - perfect passive participle partner!»

Most of the lights and fireworks of the debate surrounding Matthew 16:19 have focused on who Jesus is speaking to, whether it applies to the church or not, and how to translate the «periphrastic future - perfect passive participles.»

But frankly, with my understanding of the verse, it really doesn't matter too much how you translate the words, or whether you know what a «periphrastic future - perfect passive participle» is.

Significantly, yada was used as a euphemism for love making and the past participle of yada used for a good friend or confidant.

But if we consider that the Greek participle is in the middle voice, a completely different understanding emerges.

So radical is the gospel saying that it has often been suggested that there must either be a mistranslation here (a noun participle «burier of the dead» misunderstood as an imperatival infinitive) or the reference must be to people spiritually dead.

More interestingly still, the Hiphil participle of shachat is also used in Genesis 6:13 and 17 in reference to the destruction that came upon the earth.

The Hebrew word translated as «spoiler» is the Hiphil participle from shachat.

to him who did thus and so [participle in Hebrew] for his steadfast love endures forever [this refrain is repeated 26 times](Ps.

All six descriptive terms are aorist participles in the Greek, which means that this has happened.

The word «Redeeming» can be both an adjective and a present participle.

In Ephesians 4:17 - 18, Paul strings together several perfect participles, which means that they are dependent upon the time of the main verb in his statement.

But to make this etymology legitimate, the Hebrew form of the name can only be the active participle, a fact certainly not lost in the story's implicit understanding.

«Verb jibe (third - person singular simple present jibes, present participle jibing, simple past and past participle jibed)(intransitive, nautical) To perform a jibe (intransitive) To agree.

1:18) are articular participles that function like adjectives to refer to two GROUPS of people, without reference to time element.

He likes to crowd a sentence with participles, and he enjoys double negatives.

Similarly, he uses the verb «to be», especially in the imperfect tense, with a participle, instead of other verbs in the imperfect; his usage thus resembles the English «he was going» rather than the best Greek.

Had to google peculator, «past participle of peculari «to embezzle,» I sure hope you meant percolator, if you bought an off brand called peculator then I'm guessing you're not getting your money's worth...

Dragged vs. drug In all main varieties of English, dragged is the standard past tense and past participle of the verb drag.

Though the name may just sound like the past participle of the word tear, it's actually a very manly name with a lot of gumption.

Some scholars believe violence and vehemence may share a common Latin origin, a lost participle of the verb vehere, to carry.

Linguists have known for decades that children are skilled at absorbing certain tricky elements of language, such as irregular past participles (examples of which, in English, include «gone» and «been») or complicated verb tenses like the subjunctive.

v. Past tense and past participle of buy.

The verb cast is conventionally uninflected in the past tense and as a past participle.

meant (mĕnt) v. Past tense and past participle of mean1.

meant (mɛnt) vb the past tense and past participle of mean1 mean1 (min) v. meant, mean • ing.

Being is the present participle of the verb to be.

• Been is the past participle form of the verb be while being is the present participle of the verb be.

Infinitive present tense - ing form past tense past participle hook up hook hooks up up hooking up.

And yes, a working knowledge of things like regular verbs, conjunctions and past participles does help.