👉 In linguistics, "participle" refers to a word or phrase that functions as a part of another word or phrase. This can be used in conjunction with other words to form compound sentences or expressions. For example, if you have the sentence "I eat my vegetables," and you want to use "eat" as an adverb to describe how you are eating your vegetables, then "eating" is the participle of "eat." If you wanted to say "I am eating my
