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participle (related)
(Grammar) A form of a verb that may function as an adjective or noun. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle.
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perfect participle
Perfect participle, also called past participle, is a verbal adjective to show action that is past or completed.
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very (related)
A verb form indicating past or completed action or time that is used as a verbal adjective in phrases such as finished work and baked beans and with auxiliaries to form the passive voice or perfect and pluperfect tenses in constructions such as The work was finished and She had baked the beans.
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Past-participle Sentence Examples

  • The past participle of verbs in er was formerly isdo (u t u s) in most cases; at present ido serves for all verbs in er and Cr, except some ten or twelve in which the participle has retained the Latin form accented on the radical: dicho, hecho, visto, &c. It ought to be added that the past participle in normal Castilian derives its theme not from the perfect, but from the infinitive: habido, sabido, from haber, saber, not from hubo, supo.

  • It is made up of the imperfect subjunctive of the auxiliary verbs followed by the past participle.

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