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past participle

past par·ti·ci·ple (plural past par·ti·ci·ples)


noun 
Definition:
 
participle expressing action in past: a participle that expresses past time or a completed action. It is used with auxiliaries to form perfect tenses in the active voice and all tenses in the passive voice. In the sentence "I waited until he had rung the bell," the past participle is "rung."

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