participating
- 1Present participle and gerund of participate.
Local businesses are participating in the downtown cleanup effort.
Participating in community events helped her feel more connected to her neighbors.
Note
The -ing form carries the verb's modern habit of standing alone or taking in: participating in a vote, a study, a cleanup. It no longer takes a direct object. That older construction, meaning to share something or to pass a share of it to others, is obsolete. So write participating in the discussion, never participating the discussion, whether the form is a progressive verb or a gerund naming the activity.
participating is a form of participate
participate, verb: To take part in an activity or event, involving yourself together with others. Full entry
- Forms
- participateparticipates he/she/itparticipating -ing formparticipated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- participate → participating: drop the e, add -ing
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