Thread by @VeneficusIpse

Wheelock: Time to introduce you all to participles.
Students: What are those?
W: Verbal adjectives!
S: okay...?
W: That means that in addition to having a case, number, and gender, every participle also has a tense and a voice.
S: wait what
W: It's easy!

Students: is it tho
Wheelock: Sure! Let's start with the perfect passive participle. You already know it!
S: do we?
W: I hope so! Here's the present active, too.
S:
W: By the way, participles can also have direct objects, so participial phrases get their own internal grammar.

Students: wtaf
Wheelock: Here's the future active participle! Just remember to from the perfect passive stem.
S: are you shitting me
W: We'll finish with the future passive participle.
S: ...from the perfect passive stem?
W: Oh, no - use the present stem.
S: what
W: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Wheelock: I almost forgot! Participles can be used substantively.
Students: substanti...?
W: They act like nouns. In this case, they're verbal adjectives serving as nouns. Fun!
S: can we build up to this?
W: Nope! You'll get it all at once!

Wheelock: And one more thing!
Students:
W: The future passive participle?
S: which looks like what again?
W: Weren't you paying attention?
S:
W: It can ALSO be used to express purpose. Sometimes.
S: cool. how many chapters are we spending on this?
W: Just one! Why?

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