See present participle on Wiktionary
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{ "forms": [ { "form": "present participle", "tags": [ "singular" ] }, { "form": "present participles", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "expansion": "[POS TABLE]", "name": "noun" } ], "hyphenation": "pre‧sent par‧ti‧ci‧ple", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Countable nouns", "Grammar" ], "examples": [ { "text": "In the following examples, the present participle is underlined:" }, { "text": "They kept breaking the rules." }, { "text": "They are helping her." } ], "glosses": [ "In English, a present participle is a verb form that ends in -ing. Present participles are commonly used to form the progressive aspect." ], "raw_tags": [ "countable", "grammar" ] } ], "word": "present participle" }
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