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past participle Definition

past participle

noun

Gram. a participle used a) with auxiliaries to express, typically, completed action or a time or state gone by (Ex.: spoken in “he has spoken”) b) with auxiliaries to form the passive voice (Ex.: eaten in “the snails were all eaten in a moment”) c) as an adjective (Ex.: polished in “polished brass”)

past participle Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • verb: The present perfect is formed using the appropriate form of the verb have + the past participle of the verb.

Converse of object

  • use: In a wrecked car, the word wrecked is a past participle used as an adjective.
  • contain: Exercise 3. Here are some sentences containing past participles; see if you can translate them with the help of the wordlist.
  • write: The teacher writes each past participle and each past simple onto separate pieces of paper as they elicit the correct form from the students.

Adjective modifier

  • English: The MorphoFinder function helps you find words using English past participles, gerunds, and plural and adjective forms.

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