There is a literary periphrastic form using of, as in of a summer day.

Danish has a competing periphrastic form of the passive formed with the verb blive ("to remain, to become").

The pronouns of periphrastic forms are in brackets when they appear.

Infinitive forms are made together with auxiliary verbs and periphrastic forms.

These verb catenae are periphrastic forms of English, English being a relatively analytic language.

The imperfect is constructed in a similar manner, as are the periphrastic forms of the future and conditional tenses.

Often this derives from a periphrastic form involving the active verb combined with a reflexive pronoun.

The distinction between inflected and periphrastic forms is usually illustrated across distinct languages.

For many speakers, both the simple and periphrastic forms in the following table are possible:

Each of these predicates is a periphrastic form insofar at least one function word is present.