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Past Participle Usage Guide

This document provides a chart of common base verbs and their past and past participle forms. It then discusses how past participles can function as adjectives or be used in the passive voice. When used as adjectives, past participles describe a state and follow linking verbs. In the passive voice, past participles follow auxiliary verbs like "is" or "are" to indicate the subject is receiving an action. Examples are given for both uses of past participles.

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Past Participle Usage Guide

This document provides a chart of common base verbs and their past and past participle forms. It then discusses how past participles can function as adjectives or be used in the passive voice. When used as adjectives, past participles describe a state and follow linking verbs. In the passive voice, past participles follow auxiliary verbs like "is" or "are" to indicate the subject is receiving an action. Examples are given for both uses of past participles.

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Past Participle Verb Chart

Base Verb Past Form Past Participle Form

Bite Bit Bitten

Bleed Bled Bled

Blow Blew Blown

Come Came Come

Take Took Taken

Write Wrote Written

Choose Chose Chosen

Cast Cast Cast

Drive Drove Driven

Eat Ate Eaten

Steal Stole Stolen

Arise Arose Arisen

Wake Woke Woken

Bear Bore Borne

Forbid Forbade Forbidden

Grow Grew Grown

Hide Hid Hidden

Lade Laded Laden

Lie Lay Lain

Run Ran Run

Ring Rang Rung

Past Participles as Adjectives


The Past Participles are often seen used as Adjectives in English sentences that are not in the Past
Perfect tense.
Examples:
o Are you drunk?
“Drunk” is the Past Participle form of the Verb, “Drink” as it describes the state of the Pronoun -
“You”.

More Examples:
o It is forbidden
o You are the chosen
o Act like the grown man you are.
Past Participles in the Passive Voice
When changing Active Voices to Passive, the Past Participles sit next to the Auxiliary Verbs.
Examples:
o Active: We learn Spanish.
o Passive: Spanish is learnt by us.

Past Participle - “Learnt” here sits after the Auxiliary Verb - “Is” in the Passive form of the
sentence above.

More Examples:
o Active: Someone stole my purse.
o Passive: My purse was stolen (by someone).
o Active: The dog bit me.
o Passive: I was bitten by the dog.
o Active: Are they visiting the village house?
o Passive: Is the village house being visited by them?

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