Past Participle
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A Past Participle is a participle that expresses future action.
- Example(s):
- entertaining (may also be an Adjective).
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: English Vocabulary, Adjective.
References
2009
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=past%20participle
- S: (n) past participle, perfect participle (a participle that expresses completed action)
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/past_participle
- Noun
- 1. (grammar) A participle indicating a completed action or state.
- Usage notes
- In English, the past participle of a regular verb ends in -ed, and has the same spelling of the past tense of that verb: sometimes the last consonant is doubled (stop → stopped); sometimes the last vowel is changed (deny → denied). Irregular verbs tend to end in -en (see Appendix:Irregular verbs).
- When combined with the auxilliary verb to have, a past participle forms the perfect tenses of a verb.
- to eat (ate): All the meal has been eaten.
- to ride (ridden): I could have ridden my bicycle if it had not rained.
- to strike (struck or stricken): In that fight, he has struck my stomach.
- When combined with the auxilliary verb to be, a past participle forms the passive voice of a verb.
- to construct (constructed): The new mall is finally constructed.
- to give (given): I was given a new book.
- to talk (talked): That problem was talked about yesterday.
- to throw (thrown): The ball was thrown by John.
- to write (written): Those letters were written last year.
- Past participles can also modify a noun.
- to require (required): Here are the documents required.
- Past participles may be used to modify a verb or sentence.
- Noun