Past Participle

Past Participle

Can you guess what this is?

BUT BEFORE WE BEGIN

• Here's a set of rules for the class:

• No gadgets or memes.

• Only open new tabs or programs when instructed to do so.

• If you focus, you won't have any homework.

• You can ask questions at any time, as long as they're related to the lesson,

Past Participle VS Simple Past Verbs

• For most verbs, the past participle is just that verb with -ed, same as the simple past verbs (call -> called)

• But some verbs need to be altered completely to become a past participle (write -> written, tear-> torn, take -> taken)

Past Participle VS Simple Past Verbs

• Did you notice that past participle verbs are spelled differently from simple past verbs?

• write -> wrote -> written

• tear -> tore -> torn

• take -> took -> taken

• Past participles are also used in perfect tenses, unlike simple past verbs.

When do we use past participles?

• When we want to use verbs as adjectives

• Like this: She ate the burnt meat.

• Or this: There is a broken vase on the floor.

Open Ended

Now let's try to write 2 sentences that use past participle verbs as adjectives!

When do we use past participles?

• When we use perfect tenses.

• Present Perfect: I have sung this song so many times.

• Past Perfect: I had eaten breakfast by 10 o’clock yesterday.

• Future Perfect: You won’t have left when I arrive, right?

Open Ended

Write one present perfect sentence that includes an irregular past participle!

Open Ended

Write one past perfect sentence that includes an irregular past participle!

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Write one future perfect sentence that includes an irregular past participle!

When do we use past participles?

• When we want to use the passive voice.

• Like this: All the books were written by him.

• Or this: The car was driven by Max.

• Do you know what the passive voice is?

Open Ended

Let's try to write a sentence in the passive voice with an irregular past participle!

Now then, time for a quiz!

Any questions?

Multiple Choice

Which of these verbs is in the past participle form?

• froze

• frozen

• freeze

Multiple Choice

Which of these verbs is in the past participle form?

• cook

• cooked

• cooketh

Multiple Choice

Which of these verbs is in the past participle form?

• eaten

• ate

• eat

Multiple Choice

Which of these verbs is in the past participle form?

• give

• gave

• given

Multiple Choice

Which of these verbs is in the past participle form?

• get

• gotten

• got

Multiple Choice

How should we write the present perfect tense?

• subject + has/have + past participle (verb 3)

• subject + has/have + verb 2

• subject + had + verb 3

Multiple Choice

How should we write the past perfect tense?

• subject + had + verb 2

• subject + has/have + verb 3

• subject + had + verb 3

Multiple Choice

How should we write the future perfect tense?

• subject + will + verb 3

• subject + will+ have + verb 3

• subject + will+ have + verb 2

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

I have _____ hundreds of burgers.

• eat

• ate

• eaten

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

Yesterday, I _____ a sandwich.

• eaten

• eat

• ate

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

He _____ a letter to his cousin around a week ago.

• wrote

• written

• write

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

The author's _____ nearly two dozen books.

• write

• wrote

• written

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

Our ancestors had _____ for our freedom.

• fought

• fight

• fighten

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

The US _____ Nazi Germany in World War 2.

• fight

• fought

• fighten

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

Without any idea why, he _____ his mom's wallet.

• freezed

• froze

• frozen

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

We will have _____ by the time help gets here!

• froze

• freezed

• frozen

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

I will have _____ my homework tonight.

• finished

• finisheth

• finish

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

I will _____ my homework after dinner.

• finished

• finishing

• finish

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

Will they not have _____ away?

• get

• gotten

• got

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

We will _____ away from this.

• get

• gotten

• getting

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

The plane will have _____ by 6PM.

• landeth

• land

• landed

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks with the correct verb!

I think we will _____ soon.

• landing

• landed

• land

Open Ended

How would you turn this sentence from simple past to past perfect?

"Johnny fell from a tree."

Open Ended

How would you turn this sentence from simple present to present perfect?

"Hambo eats lots of seeds."

Open Ended

How would you turn this sentence from simple future into future perfect?

"I will play with my Switch when I get home."

And that's the end of the quiz!

Any questions?

Before we leave...

• Later on, we'll practice using past participles as adjectives.

• And practice writing in the passive and active voices.