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| | PAST - Definition |
 | | ago, agone, ancient, by, bygone, bypast, chivalric, departed, earlier, early(a), erstwhile(a), ex(a), foregone, former(a), gone, historic, historical, knightly, last(a), late(a), medieval, olden, once(a), onetime(a), other(a), past tense, past times, prehistoric, prehistorical, previous(a), quondam(a), recent, sometime(a), then(a), ult, ultimo, yesteryear, yore | | | A former time or state; a state of things gone by. | | | The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed. |
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http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/past
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| | Past participle |
| | Posted: Sun - February 27, 2005 at 09:09 PM | | | Lina is over generalizing past participles right now. | | | There was something else funny with her sentence, though, which is what caught Uli's attention. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/yasa/iblog/B494936880/C1604871086/E708762784
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| | Participle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This page was last modified 21:47, 17 October 2005. | | | Many adjectives are formed from participles; as in "I saw a talking horse", "It was the done thing" and "She sold the crashed car at a loss". | | | the past participle, which is formed by adding the suffix "-ed". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_participle
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| | The Blue Review: Volume 1 - October Edition |
| | A participle can also be used on its own as an adjective. | | | Explanation: "Blooming" is a present participle that acts as an adjective because it describes the noun "roses." "Withered" is a past participle that acts as an adjective because it describes the noun "leaves." | | | The key to avoiding dangling participles is to find and examine each one in your writing. |
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http://news.bluephantomwriters.com/brsample/br/20021001/2002/10/4/index2b1f.html
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| | Present Participles |
| | The sequential relationship may be partial (one action precedes the other, but continues on after the other starts) or total (one action ends before the next begins). | | | The present participle alone can be used to express a relationship of sequentiality (anteriority or posteriority) between actions performed by the subject of the sentence. | | | The present participle alone can, in very specific cases, be used to express a relationship of simultaneity. |
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http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/grammar/present_participles.htm
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| | Past Participles |
| | This should end in either -tum or -sum and is called the supine. | | | in classical Latin), the past participle is also what comes right after some form of the verb "to have" in sentences such as: | | | In English, the past participle shows up after the verb "to be" in passive constructions (where the subject always winds up being acted upon by somebody who may not even be in the sentence), such as: |
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http://www.southwestern.edu/~carlg/Latin_Web/pastparticiples.html
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| | Old English Aerobics |
| | These usages all arise from the perfective sense of the past participle: it expresses the state that is consequent upon an action having been completed. | | | Both strong and weak past participles are descended from Indo-European forms in which adjectives were made by adding the endings -to- and -no- to the verbal root. | | | The past participle is so called because of the resemblance between it and the past-tense form of the verb. |
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http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/OEA/notes/vpastpart.html
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| | Spanish Grammar: past perfect |
| | This idea of a past action being completed before another past action need not always be stated; it can be implied. | | | The past perfect is formed by combining the auxiliary verb "had" with the past participle. | | | You have already learned in a previous lesson that the past participle is formed by dropping the infinitive ending and adding either -ado or -ido. |
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http://www.bonus.com/contour/study_spanish/http@@/www.studyspanish.com/lessons/pastperfect.htm
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| | ENGLISH PAGE - Past Perfect |
| | I had studied a little English when I came to the U.S. They had never met an American until they met John. | | | By the time Alex finished his studies, he had been in London for over eight years. | | | Yes, I had been to the U.S. once before in 1988. |
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http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html
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| | Chapter 1 Participles |
| | A participle phrase may have a participle and no subject. | | | For the past 120 years, the Islands have | | | A participle phrase may have a participle and a subject. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/billgreene1/cgreene/Participles.html
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| | 410 Grammar: Forming and Using the Past Perfect Tense |
| | This can be very useful when you are telling a story or relating a sequence of events. | | | This page will explain the rules for forming and using the tense. | | | The past perfect tense is often used in English when we are relating two events which happened in the past. |
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http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/pastpf.htm
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| | Past participle (French) - Wikibooks |
| | This page was last modified 12:51, 22 October 2003. | | | For example, in the sentence il les a eus, the participle eus agree with the direct complement les, because it's written before the verb, but in the sentence il a eu les facture, the participle eu does not agree with les factures. | | | For verbs with the auxiliary avoir, the participle never agree with the subject, but with a possible direct complement, if it is written before the verb. |
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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Past_participle_(French)
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| | ExamMail - Irregular Verbs Exam |
| | Question 1: What is the past and participle of | | | Question 2: What is the past and participle of | | | Question 3: What is the past and participle of |
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http://www.lingolex.com/exam/iregquiz.html
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| | Workout 4: Stretch 4 |
| | Past participles can, when they are not serving as verbs, form participial phrases of their own. | | | Like the present participle, the PAST PARTICIPLE is not a finite verb, it has no sense of timing, and it cannot form a sentence alone. | | | We also use the PAST PARTICIPLE with BE to form the PASSIVE aspect (Workout 2). |
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http://athena.english.vt.edu/~IDLE/Gym2/workout4/w4.stretch4.html
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| | Past Participle & Present Perfect & Progressive Tenses |
| | This tense is equal to the use in English of the auxiliary verb have + past participle, as in I have spoken. | | | The past particple may also be used as an adjective: gone, worked, written. | | | I have a flat tire and the windshield is broken |
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http://goldey.gbc.edu/~grantm/spanish/spring/lectures/verbs.html
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| | Verbals |
| | This section covers three different verbals: the participle (which acts as an adjective), the gerund (which acts as a noun), and the infinitive (which also acts as a noun). | | | Although they look the same, gerunds and present participles are different parts of speech, and need to be treated differently. | | | Note that only transitive verbs can use their past participles as adjectives, and that unlike other verbals, past participles do not take objects (unless they are part of a compound verb). |
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http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/verbals.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - past participle |
| | participle expressing action in past: a participle that expresses past time or a completed action. | | | In the sentence "I waited until he had rung the bell," the past participle is "rung." | | | It is used with auxiliaries to form perfect tenses in the active voice and all tenses in the passive voice. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861724142
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| | Past participle - regular verbs with altered stem |
| | I have been acquainted with her for a long time. | | | The past participle forms for the regular verbs with altered stem may be found in the list of principal parts of verbs. | | | Some verbs form their past participles like a regular verb, but use the same altered stem as for the simple past: |
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http://www.wm.edu/modlang/gasmit/grammar/verbsot/ppas.htm
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| | Teaching Notes for Grammar Unit Nine |
| | I went home after I had left the dance. | | | You cannot use a past participle form of the verb without using some form of the helping verbs 'have' or 'be.' | | | The past participle form of the verb is the form we use in combination with any form of the helping verbs have or be. |
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http://www.longview.k12.wa.us/mmhs/wyatt/homework/grammar/teach9.html
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| | Notes |
| | adverb between auxiliary verb and past participle, not before auxiliary verb - 'has also been', not 'also has been'). |
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http://www.therai.org.uk/pubs/at/notes.html
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| | Past participle - modal auxiliary verbs |
| | This form of the past participle appears only when the modal auxiliary is used alone, which is infrequent. | | | Our children were never permitted (to do) that. | | | Modal auxiliary verbs form their past participle using the same stem as for the simple past: |
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http://www.wm.edu/modlang/gasmit/grammar/verbsot/ppmodal.htm
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| | Passé composé - French Compound Past Tense |
| | Saturday he saw his mother, talked to the doctor, and found a cat. | | | An action or state of being completed in the past | | | An action repeated a specific number of times in the past |
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http://french.about.com/library/weekly/aa010100.htm
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| | Past Participle |
| | The past participle (also called 3rd form) is another form of the verb which is used to form e.g. | | | is formed by the past tense form (also called 2nd form) of the verb; the will-future tense is formed by will+infinitive of the verb: | | | In English, 'time' (Past, Present or Future) is expressed by categories, called 'Tenses', such as e.g. |
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http://www.englishforums.com/English/PastParticiple/wvcq/Post.htm#40510
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| | past, pasts- WordWeb dictionary definition |
| | "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" | | | Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office | | | A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past |
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http://wordwebonline.com/en/PAST
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| | Spanish Grammar: past participle |
| | The past participle can be combined with the verb "ser" to express the passive voice. | | | Use this construction when an action is being described, and introduce the doer of the action with the word "por." | | | Let's add two more flashcards for the past participles, since they will later be used for the perfect tenses: |
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http://www.studyspanish.com/print/pastpart.htm
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| | Boyland's study of 'would+have+past-participle' |
| | This seems to indicate that have is becoming affixed to would which is predictible because this is the most frequently occurring modal before have. | | | would [have PAST PARTICIPLE...]--> [ would have ] PAST PARTICIPLE... | | | JTB presents quantitative data to show that have is being more 'tightly bound' to would: |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/dravling/boyland1.html
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| | Present Perfect ( Past participle ) |
| | This quiz was generated at Quiz Center on DiscoverySchool.com. | | | Choose the past participle of the following infinitives and click "submit" to send your answers. | | | If you have any questions or concerns about this quiz, |
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http://school.discovery.com/quizzes6/hussa1n/Pastparticiple.html
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| | Digital Annealing: Wierd Past Participle |
| | I was doing a rare lo-tech look up in a paper dictionary -- Chambers English -- when I saw the word close to the one I was looking up. | | | It's a verb and it's strange because the past participle starts with a different letter to the present participle. |
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http://www.neilbartlett.com/mtweblog/archives/000038.html
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| | Merriam-Webster Online |
| | 4 : having served as a specified officer in an organization president> | | | For More Information on "past" go to Britannica.com | | | Etymology: Middle English, from past participle of passen to pass |
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http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=past
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| | Past Participle Agreement |
| | In the case of the verbs conjugated with avoir, the past participle never agrees with the subject. | | | In certain expressions, such as faire + infinitive, laisser +infinitive, se rendre compte, and others, the place of the direct object is held by an infinitive or other complement, which will always follow the principal verb. | | | It will, however, agree with any preceding direct object. |
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http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/French/Grammar/Syntax/French-Syntax-Past_Participle_Agreement.html
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| | past participle - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary |
| | 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. | | | past participle - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary |
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http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/p/p0104700.html
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| | Quia - Passé Composé – Irregular Verbs |
| | This activity was created by a Quia Web subscriber. | | | To learn how to make your own, just like this, click here. | | | Choose the correct participle to finish the sentence below. |
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http://www.quia.com/pop/43587.html
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| | Spanish Past Participle - Spanish Verbs - All Info About Spanish Language |
| | The English past participle is the -ed form of the verb. | | | Verbs with stem that ends in vowel - Drop the infinitive and add -ído. | | | Usage - The Spanish past participle is used mainly in perfect tenses (lessons coming soon). |
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http://spanish.allinfo-about.com/grammar/verbs/vb-pastparticiple.html
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| | Wordsmyth |
| | a participle that either indicates a completed action or past state, such as "broken" in "I have broken my arm," or serves as an adjective, as "broken" in "a broken toy". | | | If you register now this message and color will disappear, and ensure that you won't miss any of the unique Wordsmyth features you've come to enjoy. |
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http://wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?script=search&matchent=past+participle&...
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| | WordReference Forums - Past participle agreement |
| | I know you only make the past particle agree with the preceding reflexive pronoun when it is a direct object and not indirect: | | | For ex., if you restate the second sentence in all pronouns would it look like this: | | | But if you make les mains an object pronoun, do u make the past participle agree with a preceding direct object that is not the reflexive pronoun? |
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http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=13500
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| | Participio pasado |
| | If your answer is correct, you will be allowed to go on to the next question. | | | For each blank, give the correct past participle form of the action verb in the first sentence. | | | If you mistakenly move to another page, use your browser to return to this page. |
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http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/grammar/pastpart.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Assizes of Jerusalem |
| | The signification of the word assizes in this connection is derived from the French verb asseoir, whose past participle is assis. | | | If an ad appears here that contradicts Catholic teachings, please click here to notify the webmaster. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02001a.htm
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| | Phrase and word origins |
| | This will open a new browser window with your search results. | | | Middle English, attested in pseudo-Latin fuccant, (they) fuck, deciphered from gxddbov.] Word History: The obscenity fuck is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. | | | To query a past discussion about a word or phrase origin, enter it in the text box below and press the button. |
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http://www.yaelf.com/questions.shtml
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| | Past Participle |
| | Infinitives ending in -re generally drop this ending and substitute -u, -ue: | | | Past participles are generally related to verb infinitives. | | | A number of common verbs have irregular past participles: |
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http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/French/Grammar/Verbs/Past_Participle.htm
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| | software - encyclopedia article about software. |
| | Computer A computer is a device or machine for processing information according to a program — a compiled list of instructions. | | | Such statements may comprise numbers, words, or images. | | | The word data is the plural of Latin datum, neuter past participle of dare, "to give", hence "something given". |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/software
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| | English-Zone.Com Quiz: Passive - Get + Past Participle 1 |
| | When "get" is used with a past participle, it has the same meaning as "become" or "grow." | | | If I work for a long time, I get tired. | | | English-Zone.Com Quiz: Passive - Get + Past Participle 1 |
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http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/get1.html
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| | Past Participle |
| | To form the past participle of a verb, add the ending-ed to the base form. | | | (But note that manycommon verbs have irregular past participle forms.)The past participle is used in the following circumstances: | | | After the auxiliary have in the perfect tense |
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http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/tsw/v-pastpt.htm
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| | past participle |
| | perfect participle: used in English and other languages in forming the present perfect, pluperfect, and passive and as an adjective. | | | a participle with past, perfect, or passive meaning, as |
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http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/past+participle
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| | definition of been |
| | Also, Authors, Be, Bee, In, Is, It, Of, Old, Participle, Past, Plural, See, Tense, The | | | Be, Bee, In, Is, It, Participle, Past, Plural, See | | | Also, Authors, Bee, Old, Past, Plural, See, Tense |
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http://www.brainydictionary.com/words/be/been135610.html
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