ABSTRACT
With active participles some languages have developed tensedistinctions, e.g. Gr. graphOn, grapson, grapsa8, gegraphOs, Lat. scribens, scripturus. The Gothonic languages have only one active participle, G. schreibend, E. writing, cf. also in Romanic languages It. scrivendo, Fr. krivant, which is generally called the present participle, though it is really no more present than any other tense, the time-notion being dependent on the tense of the main verb; cf. "I saw a man sitting on a stone I I see a man sitting on a stone I you will see a. man sitting on a stone." Note also the phrase " for the time being." The composite form having written, ayant krit better deserves its name of perfect participle.
