Past Participles in English Grammar

A Past Participle is a verb form which indicates a past or completed action or time. If you see some, you’ll recognize them: walked frozen done watched typed cleaned Quite often you’ll hear people talking about the past participle as the -ed Form. This is because with regular verbs that’s […]

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Past Continuous in English Grammar

The Past Continuous (also called the Past Progressive) is used in several different ways: interrupted actions in the past parallel actions in the past It is used to reference a continuous (long-term) action in the past: Time line of the Past Continuous

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Parts of Speech in English Grammar

Parts of Speech (often abbreviated to PoS and sometimes known as Word Classes) are the different categories of words‎ in English. They refer to the way in which those words are used grammatically. For example, if you look at the following sentences‏‎ you can see that although the words in […]

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Participles‏‎ in English Grammar

A Participle is a form of a verb‎. In English‏‎ there are two participles: Present Participle‏‎ Past Participle‏‎ Usage We use the participles to help form different verb tenses‏‎. For example in this first example we use just the basic verb form known as the infinitive: I walk In these […]

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Participles as Adjectives‏‎ in English Grammar

A participle is a form of English verb. In English there are 2 participles: the present participle made by adding –ing to the verb, e.g. walk > walking the past participle made by adding –ed to the verb, e.g. walk > walked These two participles can be used as adjectives‏‎. […]

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