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past participle

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past participle
n.
A verb form indicating past or completed action or time that is used as a verbal adjective in phrases such as baked beans and finished work and with auxiliaries to form the passive voice or perfect and pluperfect tenses in constructions such as She had baked the beans and The work was finished. Also called perfect participle.
past participle
n
(Linguistics / Grammar) a participial form of verbs used to modify a noun that is logically the object of a verb, also used in certain compound tenses and passive forms of the verb in English and other languages
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Noun1.past participle - a participle that expresses completed action
perfect participle
participial, participle - a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses
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past participle n → participio passato
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For that the variation of the past participle markers is analysed with regard to number agreement and word structure (the number of syllables and the word quantity degree).
South Estonian written standard and actual spoken language: variation ... by Mets, Mari / Linguistica Uralica
The aim of the present paper is to fill this void, at least partially, by shedding some light on the rivalry of the -n and endingless past participle forms of verbs with vowel gradation for tense in the years 1620-1720 (the century that constitutes a perfect period for the linguistic study of the beginnings of American English) in both American and British varieties of English.
The n-less versus -n past participle forms of certain ablaut verbs in ... by Dylewski, Radoslaw / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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