Review of verbs 3) The Past Participle My route was diverted by a stormroutedivertedstorm

What is the past participle? The past participle is another important conjugation of verbs.past participleanother The past participle indicates past (a completed action/time.) Future Past PresentThe past participle commonly indicates something that happened here commonly something happenedhere

When do we use the p.p.? Basically, the Past participle has three (3) uses: 1) To conjugate the perfect tense forms of a compound verb:perfect tense compound Present perfect Past perfect Future perfect Conditional perfect we are going to learn this topic later. First, it is necessary to understand the past participlelearntopic laterFirstunderstand

2)To conjugate verbs with the passive voice (When the object is more relevant that the person/ thing that performs the action)passive voiceobjectrelevant performs Basic syntax: Example: Active voice NounVerbObjectComplement Passive voice ObjectVerb to be in past simple (was/were) Verb in Past participle Complement Active voice The earthquake destroyed the town last nightearthquaketown Passive voice The town was destroyed last night (destroyed is the past participle of destroy)destroy

3) To use the participle as adjectiveasadjective The past participle can be used like an adjective in front of a nounin front of noun Examples: >Adjective >Noun -Please bring all of the > > for your interview tomorrowbringallrequired interviewtomorrow -He has a > >brokenarm

Conjugation of verbs Click the verbs and see the past participle columnseecolumn

As in simple past tense, regular verbs have the ED/D ending and irregular verbs have not a specific rule Astense endingspecific rule  Accept Accept  Advise Advise  Alert Alert  Ask Ask  Ban Ban  Burn Burn  Call Call  Clear Clear  Command Command  Decide Decide  Delay Delay  Extend Extend  Fix Fix  Follow Follow  Gaze Gaze  Handle Handle  Identify Identify  Measure Measure  Offer Offer  Prove Prove  Put Put Regular Verbs

 Fly Fly  Quit Quit  Ride Ride  Rise Rise  Run Run  Seek Seek  See See  Sink Sink  Sleep Sleep  Slide Slide  Take Take  Throw Throw  Thrust Thrust  Think Think  Understand Understand  Wear Wear  Wake Wake  Write Write  Win Win Irregular Verbs

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