When we discussed present participles above, we saw that they show up in a conjugated form: the progressive tense. For now, take a look at these passive-voice constructions (all appear in the past tense): Verb WeвЂ™ll study active and passive voice in detail in the eBook Developing a Powerful Writing Style. Just join any form of the verb to be with the past participle, and you get the passive-voice form of the verb. You can identify their past participles by completing the IВ have trick sentence: VerbДЄs mentioned above, the past participle also serves to form the passive voice. You identify the past participle by completing the trick sentence: Verb Thus, here are some regular verbs, whose past participles are formed by adding вЂ‘ed. You can identify the past participle of any verb just by completing this trick sentence in the present-perfect tense: I have. Past Participle, A Trick to Help Identify You form the perfect tenses by coupling a form of the auxiliary verb to have with the past participle: She has decided to go to Spain. Past participles serve two roles in verb conjugation: They help you form:ДЎ. One of the functions of past participles helps you identify their correct form. People brought up in grammatical households know the past participles of most verbs, because their moms and dads corrected them when they said, вЂњI have drinked itвЂќ ( I have drunk it). ThereвЂ™s no rhyme or reason that tips you off to this irregularity. They wonвЂ™t add вЂ‘ed В instead, they add something else or dream up an entirely new word to perform their pastвЂ‘participial duties. Naturally, I have named these verbs after me: TheyвЂ™re called the вЂњ вЂ‘ed verbs.вЂќ Unfortunately, many verbs form their past participles in an irregular way. As with present participles, youвЂ™ll sometimes have to double up an ending consonant: The past participle of occur is occu rred. Every verb also has a past-participial form, which, for most verbs, you create by adding вЂ‘ed,В вЂ‘ d, or вЂ‘t.

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