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The Sanskrit Past Active Participle: Usage (textbook version)
Summary: This article presents the “textbook version” of how the Sanskrit past active participle should be understood, in terms of being “used as a verb” and in terms of being… more →
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The Sanskrit Past Active Participle: Usage (textbook version)
wrote 1 month ago: Summary: This article presents the “textbook version” of how the Sanskrit past active pa … more →
The Sanskrit Present Middle Participle
wrote 1 month ago: The Sanskrit present middle participle is a participle or “verbal adjective”. It can be … more →
The Sanskrit Past Passive Participle: Usage (textbook version)
wrote 1 month ago: Summary: This article presents the “textbook version” of how the Sanskrit past passive p … more →
The Sanskrit Present Active-P Participle (Parasmaipada)
wrote 1 month ago: Summary: The Sanskrit present active-p participle (parasmaipada) is a participle or “verbal ad … more →
The Sanskrit Present Active-Ā Participle (Ātmanepada)
wrote 1 month ago: Summary: The Sanskrit present active-ā participle (ātmanepada) is a participle or “verbal adje … more →
"Perfective-like" Sanskrit Participles: Past Active and Perfect Active
wrote 1 month ago: Summary: Different Sanskrit grammars use different terminology and systematic approaches to handle … more →
Sanskrit Perfect Middle Participle
wrote 1 month ago: The Sanskrit perfect middle participle here refers to the Sanskrit perfect active-ā participle, whic … more →
The Sanskrit Perfect Active-Ā Participle (Ātmanepada)
wrote 1 month ago: Summary: The Sanskrit perfect active-ā participle (ātmanepada) is a participle or “verbal adje … more →
The Sanskrit Perfect Active-P Participle (Parasmaipada)
wrote 1 month ago: Summary: The Sanskrit perfect active-p participle (parasmaipada) is a participle or “verbal ad … more →
Top 10 Sentence Slip-ups
wrote 2 months ago: Here is a great article on sentence slip-ups. The author outlines ten problems writers often have in … more →
The Sanskrit Infinitive
wrote 2 months ago: Summary: The Sanskrit infinitive is usually categorized as a type of participle. It is characterized … more →
The Sanskrit Gerund
wrote 2 months ago: Summary: The Sanskrit gerund is a type of participle or “verbal adjective”, and can be u … more →
Participles, Gerunds & Infinitives
wrote 2 months ago: Participles, Gerunds & Infinitives တံဂွ္ ေကာ္ခၜစ Verbal ရ။ Verbal ဂွ္ ႓ုိန္ရေစွ္ကႜဳင္ႏူမႀကိယာ(ve … more →
The Sanskrit Past Active Participle
wrote 2 months ago: Summary: The Sanskrit past active participle is a participle or “verbal adjective”. It c … more →
On Literal Translations of Sanskrit Participles into English
wrote 2 months ago: Summary: For strictly literal translations of Sanskrit participles it is beneficial to translate the … more →
The Sanskrit Past Passive Participle
wrote 2 months ago: Summary: The Sanskrit past passive participle is a participle or “verbal adjective”. It … more →
My, What An Impressive Dangling Participle!
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wrote 2 months ago: Happy (Inter)National Grammar Day, my dear readers! In honour of this very special day, I thought I … more →
Don't dangle your participle!
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wrote 2 months ago: It might be amusing to come into a room and gasp, “Someone in this room has a dangling participle”, … more →
Grammar, rhetoric, and jujitsu
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wrote 3 months ago: Today I found myself about to fire off a friendly clever retort that made reference to comma splice … more →
