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What is a past participle?

What is a past participle? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (grammar) A participle indicating a completed action or state.
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This course presents the past participle, the present perfect, the past simple and the imperative forms of verbs.
The second type of participle, the past participle, is a little more complicated, since not all verbs form the past tense regularly.
There are about 24 verbs in English that have identical past participle, preterite, and plain form.
Completed action is denoted by special verb-phrases made by prefixing to the past participle some form of the auxiliary verb have.
Thus, in all verbs the preterite and the past participle were the same and ended in ed.
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