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Questions tagged [past-participles]

For questions about past participle forms of verbs.

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Is "molten" the past participle of "melt"?

Longman tells me that melt is a regular verb, and molten is simply an adjective. But in the irregular verb appendix of the Shanghai High School English Exam Vocabulary word book, molten is the past participle of melt, which leads me into…
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"I don't want to get bit by mosquitoes"-Is that correct?

I was at my house and bugs were flying in. Then I said, "I don't want to get bit by mosquitoes". Then my dad said "the word is bitten. Bit is incorrect". Was my statement correct?
Bob
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A confusing sentence with Past participle

I think this is a shortened sentence (the highlighted portion), but I'm not sure. Please help me rewrite it into the full version as separated phrases so that it can be understood more easily. ...that alone can cost you a couple of hundred bucks.…
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'Close group' Vs 'Closed group'

On Facebook, you can create a group. You can further 'classify' the group wherein there's an option - 'closed'. When you create a group, the description for that group is shown as 'Closed group'. Now there's a catch. If someone sees this group and…
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Is "compared to" a verb?

In the following sentence: Our method cannot achieve 100 percent accuracy compared to the DART method due to the imprecise modeling. This sentence appears to have the format of [subject][verb][object]compared to[subject][verb][object]. Is…
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Would have past participle (a passage from Wuthering Heights)

He bid me be silent; and then, for the first time, allowed himself a glance round the room and a look at the pictures. Having studied Mrs. Linton’s, he said—‘I shall have that home. Not because I need it, but—’ He turned abruptly to the fire,…
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what does it mean by "used to" in the context below?

CONTEXT: We love life, not because we are "used to living" but because we are "used to loving". As far as I know it is used to state the activity that a person does not do now but used to do in past. But in this what does it mean?
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Why it's like this?

North of the Pyrenees Mountains, the natterjack toad offers a good example of hibernation, passing the winter dug deep into sandy ground. I expect this sentence to be like this: North of the Pyrenees Mountains, the natterjack toad offers a good…
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Is the use of a verb as an adjective in 'scheduled date' acceptable?

The word 'scheduled' is a verb. Is it correct to say 'scheduled date'? In this phrase the word scheduled is used as an adjective. Date is when you meet someone who you are having romantic relationship with.
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intransitive verbs as past participle form without' have'

She is gone. 'Go' is an intransitive verb, but it is used as the past participle form without 'have'. What are other verbs, if any, used like this?
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the stories (were/are) created by the teenagers

The public will be able to listen to the stories created by the teenagers and look at the symbolic art works inside these wooden dolls, beautifully carved by the Dublin Woodturners’ Association. The Irish Times Aren't created & covered past…
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When Past tense and past participle adjective in a sentence

I've learnt that past perfect tense should be used when an action had happened before another action in the past. For example, I had took the introduced class before I registered the advanced class. And, I've also learnt that the past participle…
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Is this past participle a modifier?

. . . we reject an analysis that has gerund and present participle as different forms syncretised throughout the class of verbs. We have therefore just one inflectional form of the verb marked by the -ing suffix; we label it with the compound…
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Help with verbs following 'hasn't'

I know that the verb following has or have must be in past participle. But why did Google say that the following sentence is correct: "He hasn't texted me in 2 days." Can someone explain to me why it's correct or incorrect? Ex 1: He hasn't run…
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A book (writing, written) in haste may well have a lot of mistake

A book (writing, written) in haste may well have a lot of mistake. What is the answer? (I don't know which one is correct now.) Most of us (non-native speaker) say 'written' is correct(the book (which is) written in haste ~) but someone says the…
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