enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Participle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participle

    The first example involves a present participle and the two latter examples involves a past participle. All present participles end with an -ande suffix. In Norwegian, the present participle may be used to form adjectives or adverbs denoting the possibility or convenience of performing the action prescribed by the verb.

  3. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uses_of_English_verb_forms

    English past participles have both active and passive uses. In a passive use, an object or preposition complement becomes zero, the gap being understood to be filled by the noun phrase the participle modifies (compare similar uses of the to-infinitive above). Uses of past participles and participial phrases introduced by them are as follows:

  4. List of English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_irregular...

    The preterite and past participle forms of irregular verbs follow certain patterns. These include ending in -t (e.g. build, bend, send), stem changes (whether it is a vowel, such as in sit, win or hold, or a consonant, such as in teach and seek, that changes), or adding the [n] suffix to the past participle form (e.g. drive, show, rise ...

  5. Passé composé - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passé_composé

    The passé composé is formed by the auxiliary verb, usually the avoir auxiliary, followed by the past participle.The construction is parallel to that of the present perfect (there is no difference in French between perfect and non-perfect forms - although there is an important difference in usage between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense).

  6. English verbs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_verbs

    The past participle of regular verbs is identical to the preterite (past tense) form, described in the previous section. For irregular verbs, see English irregular verbs. Some of these have different past tense and past participle forms (like sing–sang–sung); others have the same form for both (like make–made–made).

  7. English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_irregular_verbs

    Differences between the past tense and past participle (as in sing–sang–sung, rise–rose–risen) generally appear in the case of verbs that continue the strong conjugation, or in a few cases weak verbs that have acquired strong-type forms by analogy – as with show (regular past tense showed, strong-type past participle shown).

  8. Verb - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb

    English has an active participle, also called a present participle; and a passive participle, also called a past participle. The active participle of break is breaking, and the passive participle is broken. Other languages have attributive verb forms with tense and aspect.

  9. Nonfinite verb - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonfinite_verb

    The three examples show distinctions between finite and non-finite verbs and the roles of these distinctions in sentence structure. For example, non-finite verbs can be auxiliary verbs or main verbs and they appear as infinitives, participles, gerunds etc.