Past Participle

Who was dangling from a branch?

There's a wire dangling down either side.

It's got tentacles dangling, swirling around like that.

Hope so. D'you always leave them dangling overnight?

He sat on a chair with his legs dangling.

His company is dangling by a thread. That's the rumor I hear.

In a progressive tense sentence it becomes the ing form verb, that is the present participle.

I'd like to ask a grammarian, isn't it possible to think of 'be participle' like you do V C and such?

But the problem is I still have my phantom fingers dangling from the shoulder, and your box doesn't reach.

In this cave, great areas are covered by this reddish material that you see here, and also these enormous crystals of selenite that you can see dangling down.

Hilary Cottam, Charlie Leadbeater, and Hugo Manassei of Participle have taken this idea of participation, and in their manifesto entitled Beveridge 4.0, they are suggesting a framework for reinventing the welfare state.

He wore rather baggy grey shepherd's check trousers, a not over clean black frock coat, unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as an ornament.