Indeed, languages with three forms for present, past and participle have a way of trying to make two things out of three. Sometimes they marginalize the past form in favor of the participle.

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 ...

The value lies in the broader understanding of English sentence grammar that comes as a result of really "getting" the -ed/-ing principles. Knowing about the different roles of verb and participle ...

Startled, stuffed, baffled, exhausted, risen and humiliated are just a few examples of past participles that can also function as modifiers. These words stem from verbs.

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: ...

These are the plurals of nouns, the principal parts of verbs (the past tense, the past participle when it differs from the past tense, and the present participle), and the comparative and ...