Last week, we talked about how to look up past participles in your dictionary. Here’s a condensed lesson: For any irregular verb, the past tense and past participle are listed right after the ...

Last week we talked about how to look up past participles in your dictionary. Here's a condensed lesson: For any irregular verb, the past tense and past participle are listed right after the entry ...

Continues from Part One and shows where participles and participial phrases can go wrong. MOST dictionaries show the three principal parts of a verb; for example, see (base form), saw (past tense ...

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Present and past particples are used as parts of certain verb constructions but they can be used in a number of different ways. Present participle (verb-ing) ...

We form this tense by using have or has and then the past participle, sometimes called the third form, of the verb. Here are some other examples of this use of the present perfect: I have been to ...