Irregular Past Participles
A. Practice working with past participles. Fill in the blanks with the correct participial form of the verb in parentheses.
1. Peter was (take) taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
2. The (lose) lost woman could not remember her way back home.
3. The explorers had (find) found a shorter trade route.
4. Many of the condos on the beach had (be) been(buy)bought by very wealthy people.
5. After the fight, Rocky had a (break) broke nose.
6. Unfortunately, the thief was not (catch) cought on time. He escaped.
7. In some societies, the (speak) spoken word is worth a lot more than the (write) written word.
8. By the time Louis was 12, he had (fly) flew in an airplane more than any of his classmates.
9. The Jones had to put their dog to sleep after he had (bite) bittena couple of children in the neighborhood.
10. Have you ever (take) token a Spanish class with Professor Jofre?
11. Do you like to eat (grind) grindbeef?
12. Sorry, nobody has ever (teach) me that at school.
13. Some people are very worried about their privacy. They do not like to be (see)
Seen in public.
B. Go back and look at each one of these sentences and determine what function each of the past participles had. Was it as an adjective, a passive form, or a perfect form?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
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A:
1. taken
2. lost
3. found
4. been, bought
5. broke
6. cought
7. spoken, written
8. flew
9. bitten
10. token
11. ground
12. taught
13. seen
B:
1. passive form
2. adjective
3. perfect form
4. passive form, adjective
5. adjctive
6. passive form
7. adjective, adjective
8. perfect form
9. perfect form
10. passive form
11. adjective
12. perfect form
13. passive form
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