past participles

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• Past participles — ◊ GRAMMAR The past participle of a verb is used to form perfect tenses, passives, and, in some cases, adjectives. It is also called the ed form, especially when it is used as an adjective. Advances have continued, though actual productivity has… …   Useful english dictionary

• past participles — ◊ GRAMMAR The past participle of a verb is used to form perfect tenses, passives, and, in some cases, adjectives. It is also called the ed form, especially when it is used as an adjective. Advances have continued, though actual productivity has… …   Useful english dictionary

• intransitive past participles — Most past participles are of transitive verbs and, when used as adjectives, denote an action performed on the noun or phrase they qualify; for example, the phrase a polished table denotes the state of the table as having been polished. However,… …   Modern English usage

• past participle — past participles N COUNT In grammar, the past participle of a verb is a form that is usually the same as the past form and so ends in ed . A number of verbs have irregular past participles, for example break past participle broken , and come past …   English dictionary

• past participle — noun count LINGUISTICS the form of a verb used to make perfect tenses and passive forms of verbs. Past participles are also sometimes used as adjectives, for example cooked in the phrase cooked vegetables …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• past participle — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms past participle : singular past participle plural past participles linguistics the form of a verb used to make the perfect tense and passive forms of verbs. Past participles are also sometimes used as… …   English dictionary

• past participle — noun a participle that expresses completed action • Syn: ↑perfect participle • Hypernyms: ↑participle, ↑participial * * * noun, pl ⋯ ciples [count] grammar : the form of the verb that is used with “have” in perfect tenses and with “be” in passive …   Useful english dictionary

• ˌpast ˈparticiple — noun [C] linguistics the form of a verb that is used for making perfect tenses and passive forms of verbs. Past participles are also sometimes used as adjectives, for example ‘cooked in the phrase ‘cooked vegetables …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• participles — 1. There are two kinds of participle in English: the present participle ending in ing as in We are going, and the past participle ending in d or ed for many verbs and in t or en or some other form for others, as in Have you decided? / New houses… …   Modern English usage

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• Romance copula — The copula or copulae (the verb or verbs meaning to be ) in all Romance languages largely derive from the Latin verbs esse to be (ultimately from Proto Indo European *h1es , as in English is); stāre to stand (ultimately from Proto Indo European… …   Wikipedia