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E-Lecture - Past Participle Form of Verb

The past participle form of the verb is used to indicate the perfect tense. For regular verbs, the simple past form and the past participle form of the verb remains the same, whereas there are irregular verbs that take a different spelling when used as a past participle.

Examples

Verbs that take the same spelling in the simple past and past participle forms of the verb

Table 4

Root Verb	Simple Past	Past Participle
Sit	Sat	Sat
Draw	Drew	Drawn

Verbs that take a different spelling when used in the simple past form and the past participle form

Table 5

Root Verb	Simple Past	Past Participle
Write	Wrote	Written
Drink	Drank	Drunk

There are five forms of a verb:

Table 6

1^st form	Go	Play	Write	Original or Base form
2^nd form	Went	Played	Wrote	Past form
3^rd form	Gone	Played	Wrote	Perfect form
4^th form	Going	Playing	Writing	Continuous form
5^th form	Goes	Plays	Writes	Singular present form

The 5^th form of verb is used only in Simple Present Tense and Positive sentences only.
In Negative and Interrogative sentences, no verb with ‘s’ or ‘es’ is used except helping verbs.

Examples

He writes a letter. [Positive]
He does not write a letter. [Negative]
Does he write a letter? [Interrogative]
What does he write? [WH question]

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