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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).
present simple past participle; adjectival Passive You look charming: present simple present participle; adjectival Active You are lost: present simple past participle; adjectival Passive You are losing: present continuous present participle; aspectual Active He has finished: present perfect past participle; aspectual Active He has been finished
The passive voice is a specific grammatical construction. The essential components, in English, are a form of the stative verb be (or sometimes get [4]) and the past participle of the verb denoting the action.
Tiger Woods’ mother, Kultida Woods, has died, the golfer announced on Tuesday.She was 81. “It is with heartfelt sadness that I want to share that my dear mother, Kultida Woods, passed away ...
Left-hand components of a compound modifier that end in -ly and that modify right-hand components that are past participles (ending in -ed): "a hotly disputed subject" "a greatly improved scheme" "a distantly related celebrity" Compound modifiers that include comparatives and superlatives with more, most, less or least: "a more recent development"
The present continuous is formed by the present tense form of be and the present participle (-ing form) of the verb. [3] [4]For example, you would write the verb work in the present continuous form by adding the -ing suffix to the verb and placing a present tense form of be (am, are, is) in front of it: [3]
However, its use is restricted to simple finite forms of the copula, namely the present indicative ("I am to do it"), the past indicative ("I was to do it"), and the past subjunctive ("if I were to do it" or "were I to do it"; these last have somewhat different implications, as described at English conditional sentences).
From January 2008 to September 2008, if you bought shares in companies when Karen N. Horn joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -81.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a -13.0 percent return from the S&P 500.