PAST PARTICIPLE

AND ITS USES

 WHAT IS THE PAST PARTICIPLE?

• The past participle of a verb is one of two past forms. As

an English student, you’ve probably studied some irregular
verbs, seen in a list consisting of three words: the infinitive,
the simple past, and the past participle.
• For example,

• As you can see, the third form of the verb, usually written on
the right, is the past participle.
 VERB TENSES THAT USE THE PAST PARTICIPLE

• The past participle is used in several tenses, especially perfect

forms. For example,
• the Present Perfect – You’ve met Bill before.
• the Past Perfect – We had already seen the
film.
• the Passive form – The mobile phone was
invented by Motorola
 CREATING THE PAST PARTICIPLE

• English verbs can be separated into two categories – regular

verbs and irregular verbs.
• Regular verbs follow a simple pattern in which both the past
simple and the past participle form of the verb are created by
adding -ed. For example,
 HERE ARE SOME COMMON IRREGULAR VERBS, WITH
THE PAST PARTICIPLES HIGHLIGHTED ON THE RIGHT.