![]() The thing to remember is this: All perfect tenses in English include the past participle. Knowing the name of this or other verb tenses is not important for today’s lesson. I used the present perfect tense, which is have or has + past participle. The first we will look at is perfect verb tenses.Īs a reminder, a perfect tense is one that puts some form of the verb “have” before its main verb. OK, now let’s get into today’s subject: the three uses for past participles. Its past tense is “took,” as in “I took my mother to the park.” The past participle is “taken,” as in “She has taken that flight many times.” Most English verbs are regular, so most of their past participles are identical to the past tense.īut for irregular verbs, the past participles and past tenses are not the same. In other words, it is identical, as in “I have talked to her about my plans.” You probably know that the past tense of a regular verb ends in -ed, as in “I talked to my friend.” For regular verbs, the past participle also ends in - ed. The past participle is everywhere so let me begin with a quick discussion about recognizing it. In fact, I used it a few times in this paragraph alone. You just may not have known what it was called. On today’s program, I will talk about all three of these.īy now in your English studies, you have heard and seen the past participle countless times. One is the passive voice and the other is adjectives. In addition to forming verb tenses, the past participle can form two other things. Take the statement “I have been to Atlanta.” It uses “been,” which is the past participle of the verb “be.” Most English tenses use a word form called a “participle.” There are present participles and past participles. As you know, English does this through verb tenses. As against, there is no such pattern followed in the case of irregular verbs, because they either entirely change their form or remains unchanged in the past tense.Every language has its own way of saying something happened in the past, is happening now or will happen in the future. The essential difference between regular and irregular verbs is that while regular verbs have a consistent or fixed ending when they are changed to past forms. its simple past and past participle forms are either purely different from their base form or they are similar to the base form.
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