{"id":71793,"date":"2019-08-26T08:15:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T08:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71793"},"modified":"2019-08-28T05:34:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T05:34:56","slug":"past-participle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/past-participle\/","title":{"rendered":"Present And Past Participle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Present participle<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The verb form ending in <strong>\u2013ing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The present participle combines with the auxiliary be to form the progressive verb forms.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She was crying.<\/li>\n<li>Alice was knitting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It can also occur in a participial relative clause.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The woman wearing the white shirt is Susie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The present participle can also occur in certain complements.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I saw Alice crossing the road.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Past participle<\/h3>\n<p>A past participle is a non-finite verb form like <strong>broken, lost, gone and stopped.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With a regular verb, the past participle ends in <strong>\u2013ed<\/strong> and is identical in form to the past tense. Examples are: <em>loved, waited, started, ended and decided<\/em>. With an irregular verb, the past participle takes a variety of forms, though it often ends in<strong> \u2013en<\/strong>. Examples are: <em>written, broken, seen, put, drawn, driven and smitten.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The past participle has several uses.<\/p>\n<p>1. It combines with have to form perfect tenses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have seen her.<\/li>\n<li>Have you finished dinner?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. It combines with be to form passives.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They have been invited.<\/li>\n<li>I was shocked by his attitude.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3. It can be used as an adjective.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are: dried grapes, boiled cabbage, rotten eggs, a vanished civilization etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Present participle The verb form ending in \u2013ing. The present participle combines with the auxiliary be to form the progressive verb forms. She was crying. Alice was knitting. It can also occur in a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[830,890],"class_list":["post-71793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-participle","tag-past-participle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71810,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71793\/revisions\/71810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}