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English Past Participles | How to use correctly
Dec 31, 2024
The past participle is a verb tense used with the Passive voice (was broken), the Perfect Tense (has broken), and sometimes used as an adjective (my phone is broken).
Verbs that have a regular past tense form ending with _ed will use the same form for the past participle.
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I have been teaching English as a second
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language since 2006 and I've been asked
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many great questions by my private and
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group lesson students here's a common
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one how do you use the English past
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participle I wrote a blog post made a
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PDF download and created this video to
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teach people how to use the past
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participle you will learn the grammar
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with real past participle sentence
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examples keep watching
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let me explain using the past participle
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broken broken is the past participle of
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the verb to break the past participle is
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a verb tense used with the passive voice
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was broken the perfect tense has
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broken and sometimes used as an
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adjective my phone is broken
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verbs that have a regular past tense
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form ending with Ed will use the same
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form for the past participle play
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present tense played past tense played
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past
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participle an exception to this rule is
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the verb to show showed is the correct
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past tense but shown is the preferred
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past
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participle did you show Jason your new
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car yes I showed Jason yesterday but I
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haven't shown anyone else
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yet haven't shown is the perfect tense
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have or has plus the past participle of
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a
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verb here are some examples of the past
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part of iple with a few common irregular
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verbs we will start with a common past
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participle that you've probably heard
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before Eden this is the past participle
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of the verb to
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eat I eat pizza twice a
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month we ate pizza
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yesterday they haven't eaten Pizza in 3
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months haven't eaten is the perfect
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tense have or has plus the past
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participle of a verb
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I like to eat interesting food I ate
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alligator when I visited sa Pao Brazil
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but I have never eaten
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grasshoppers did you know grasshoppers
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are eaten in several parts of the world
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are eaten is the passive voice to be
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plus the past participle of a verb
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another irregular past participle
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example
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I'm going to go to the store does
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anybody need anything we need milk but I
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went to the store an hour ago and they
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are sold
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out has Andy gone yet we need more
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rice can one verb have two past
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participles to go past participle gone
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versus bean bean is the past participle
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of the verb to be Bean is used as the
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past participle of go when somebody has
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gone somewhere and come
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back I want to go back to saw poo Brazil
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one day have you ever been there this is
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asking have you gone to saw Pao
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before for some irregular verbs the past
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participle and the past tense are the
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same for example the past tense in the
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past participle of the verb to buy is
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bought
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have you ever bought something expensive
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and then felt bad about it
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after when to use the past
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participle as I mentioned at the start
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of this video the past participle verb
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form is used with passive voice
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imperfect tense English grammar here is
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a short clip from my video on the
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passive
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voice a mosquito bit
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Paul this sentence is in the active
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voice the subject of our sentence does
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something Paul was bitten by a
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mosquito this sentence is in the passive
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voice something happens to the subject
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of our
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sentence here is a short clip from my
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video on the present perfect
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tense have or has plus the past
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participle form of a
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verb we use it when we want to describe
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new information or an action that is
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related to
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now I have just eaten lunch so I'm not
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hungry eaten is the past participle of
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the verb to
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eat Erica's contact lens has fallen out
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let's help her find it
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Fallen is the past participle of the
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verb to
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fall when I moved to Japan in 2006 and
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began teaching English as a full-time
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job I had to relearn lots of difficult
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English grammar including and especially
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the past participle English verb tense
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it's a big topic so I've made lots of
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other great English verb content
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including detailed lessons on the
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passive voice the present perfect tense
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the perfect continuous tense a past
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tense verb resource where you will learn
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50 common irregular past tense verbs and
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more all these helpful tools are linked
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in the video description
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