Question

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.

Answer 1

Respuesta:

No se ingles niño o niña lo que seas sorri

Answer 2

Respuesta:

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

Explicación: