Fundamentals Of English Grammar

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a lot of other people, too. I (meet) people km Latin America,

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.:.+$ or Bolivb&&~:$ (know) 19 people from both these places, and they

(become) my friends.

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1 4-1. PAST PARTICIPLE

SIMPLE

FORM

SIMPIH The pest participle is one of the principal parts

PAST of a verb. (See Chart 2-6,. a - 32.)

REGULAR finish The past participle is used in the PR~SENT

VERBS stop

finished 5nished PERFECT tense and the PAST PERFECT tense.*

wait Stopped waited L2z2 the The sim~le past participle ~ast form: of both regular end verbs in -ed. is the same as

IRRFGULAR see saw See chart i-7, p. 33, for a list of irregular verbs.

VBRBS make made

'The past partiaple is also used in rhe passive. See Chapter 10.

EXERCISE 2. Past partlclple. (Chart 4-1)

Directions: Write the past participle.

SIMPLE

FORM

1. finish


2. see


3. go


4. have


5. meet


6. call


7. fall


8. do


9. know
   lo. fly

SIMPLE PAST

PAST PAKllCIPLE

finished Fi~ish~A

saw see*

went

had

met

called

fell

did

knew

flew

SIMPLE SIMPLE

FORM PAST

11. come


12. study


13. stay


14. begin


15. start


16. write


17. eat


18. cut


19. read


20. be

came

studied

stayed

began

started

wrote

ate

cut

read

wadwere

PAST

PARTICIPLE