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past participle

noun

A participle indicating a completed action or state.

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The term "past participle" is correct and is commonly used in written English.
It typically has the form of a verb ending in "-ed," "-en," or "-t" and is used as an adjective or verb. For example, "She had written the letter" (written is the past participle of write).

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Past participle?

The past participle of "tread" is "trod".

The past participle is "shaken," of course.

Shrunk, sprung, stunk, and sunk are used in the past participle —  not the past tense.

Many of them can spot a past participle much faster than their American counterparts.

The past and past participle forms of the verb "shed" are "shed," not "shedded".

The past participle prefix y- developed from the Old English perfective prefix ge-.

He is in error: the past participle of the verb drag is dragged, not drug.

Thus was the gulf war II locution firmly embedded (verb, past participle) in Pentagonese.

And Nancy has no intention of living the rest of her days in the past participle.

The root of the word "cursive" is the Latin cursus, past participle of currere, "to run".

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