Past & Past participle -73

        Past and Past participle                                            

INTRODUCTION                                                    

We often tend to get confused with past and participle verbs usage, because  the regular verbs have same form in past and past participle category. The verb come takes present form in past participle category .

Look at the Following verb forms

Present	Past	Past part.	Type
Call	called	called	regular
Walk	walked	walked	regular
Go	went	gone	irregular
Sea	saw	seen	irregular
come	came	come	exceptional

Look at the following sentences

1. She has visited the White house.

2. She visited the White house last week.

3. She has seen the white house.

In the first sentence the verb visited represents past participle verb form. In the second sentence the verb visited represents past verb form. In the third sentence the verb seen represents past participle form. It’s very important to distinguish past and past participle form of the verb (Visited), How can we identify this distinction?

RULE

With the helping verbs like have/has/had we must always use  past participle verb

e.g.

She has gone to the bank.

We have seen him just now.

She had completed her work.

Have you seen him?

Has she attended the meeting?

Verb Come

She has come from California.

She came yesterday.

She had come before the chief guest arrived.

They have come to meet the Chairman.  

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