44 examples of past participle in sentences

"Eat" as past participle, however, was archaic or rude even in Coleridge's time.

"Lex (i.e. legs) is no other than our ancestors past participle læg, laid down.

His conjugations include the moods, tenses, and inflections of verbs; but he teaches also, with some inaccuracy, as follows: "The principal parts of the verb are the Present indicative, the Past indicative and the Past participle.

* * * Strictly speaking, then," says the Doctor, "the PAST PARTICIPLE with the verb TO BE is not the present tense in the passive voice of verbs thus used; that is, this form does not express passively the doing of the act.

"Go, ago, ygo, gon, agon, gone, agone, are all used indiscriminately by our old English writers as the past participle of the verb to go.

"These are examples of the past participle being applied in an active sense.

Which Gothic substantive is indeed itself no other than the past participle of the verb [Gothic: taujan], agere.

Formerly, a man's own was what he worked for, own being a past participle of a verb signifying to work.

"LEX (i.e., legs, a law,) is no other than our ancestors' past participle loeg, laid down"Tooke cor.

"A man's own is what he has, or possesses by right; the word own being a past participle of the verb to owe, which formerly signified to have or possess.

According to Horne Tooke, this definite article of ours, is the Saxon verb "THE," imperative, from THEAN, to take; and is nearly equivalent in meaning to that or those, because our that is "the past participle of THEAN," and "means taken.

1.The words of Tooke, concerning the derivation of That and The, as nearly as they can be given in our letters, are these: "THAT (in the Anglo-Saxon Thæt, i.e. Thead, Theat) means taken, assumed; being merely the past participle of the Anglo-Saxon verb Thean, Thegan, Thion, Thihan, Thicgan, Thigian; sumere, assumere, accipere; to THE, to get, to take, to assume.

According to Horne Tooke, who declares hoet to have been one of its ancient forms, "this pronoun was merely the past participle of the verb HAITAN, hætan, nominare," to name, and literally signifies "the said;" (Diversions of Purley, Vol.

The very form of our past participle is invented to indicate an event in past time.

To represent an action as completed at the present time, the past participle is used with have (hast, has).

2. To represent an action as completed in past time, the past participle is combined with had (hadst).

3. To represent action that will be completed in future time, shall have or will have is combined with the past participle.

When the past participle has an ending, it is either -d, -ed, -t, or -en.

The perfect participle is formed by combining having with a past participle; as, having gone.

The present participle is used for the formation of the progressive conjugation; the past participle, for the formation of the compound or perfect tenses.

It has been the custom to call all verbs which form the preterite and past participle by adding -d or -ed to the present, regular verbs [love, loved, loved], and to call all others irregular.

The termination of the past participle in -n or -en is a sure indication that a verb is strong.

CAUTION.Do not confuse the preterite with the past participle.

Illustrate by original sentences the proper use of the past indicative and the past participle of each of the following verbs, thus: A swallow FLEW into my room, but before I recovered from my surprise it had FLOWN out again.

Anticipatory past participle of the verb "to complect.

44 examples of  past participle  in sentences