The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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If you were to turn “Taipei” into a word cloud, here’s what you’d end up with: adjectives like “stranded,” “disengaged” and “fetal”; verbs like “dispersed” and “cringing”; past participles like “alienated,” “muffled,” “depleted” and “doomed.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2013
And English verb forms, like past participles, gerunds and infinitives, can be difficult to master, since Chinese verbs are unchanging.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
Sir John Squire, like all poets, loves the euphonious past participles of our irregular verbs.
From Time Magazine Archive
One autumn day in 1921, "expecting to be met by the headmaster demanding the past participles of French verbs," Thornton arrived on the oak-studded campus near Trenton, N.J.
From Time Magazine Archive
At one time, everyone agreed that the verb get had two past participles: got and gotten.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
