participle
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English verbs have two participles which typically end in "ed" or "ing".
participles = a verb form usually ending in "ed" or "ing" which can also be used as an adjective

In the classroom we all learned past participles, but in the streets and in our homes the Blacks learned to drop s's from plurals and suffixes from past-tense verbs.† (source)

Besides the loss of the "s," other innovations are the use of be plus a verb in the present participle—for example, he be working—and the use of had plus a past-tense verb, as in Yesterday I had went, or Yesterday I had saw him; these features were not found in black speech before World War II.† (source)

In moments were a dozen, from Finn Nielsen to Gospodin Dangling-Participle (turned out to be good cobber aside from his fetish).† (source)

On television, as time became more valuable, commercials shorter, and the programs between the commercials faster-paced, it has been remarked that news programs are leaving out verbs, or using mostly present participles, in a new, abbreviated language; for example, John King on CNN: "Those negotiations continuing.† (source)

I am the most slavish of students, with here a dictionary, there a notebook in which I enter curious uses of the past participle.† (source) Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931

"Look," he said quietly, "the past participle conjugated with avoir agrees with the direct object when it precedes."† (source) D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, 1913

Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, the participles, the kings of France, a little music, a little drawing, etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a great charm and a great peril.† (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

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He never uses /gotten/ as the perfect participle of /get/; he always uses plain /got/.† (source)

…subject, monosyllabic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct feminine object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past participle with complementary masculine agent) in the passive voice: the continued product of seminators by generation: the continual production of semen by distillation: the futility of triumph or protest or vindication: the inanity of extolled…† (source) James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922

Here the rule in correct English is followed faithfully, though the perfect participle [Pg209] employed is not the English participle.† (source)

But the perfect participle (which is also the disused preterite) of /to sit/ has survived, as in "I have /sat/ there."† (source)

The contrary substitution of the preterite for the perfect participle, as in "I have /went/" and "he has /did/," apparently has a double influence behind it.† (source)

/Comed/ as the perfect participle of /to come/ and /digged/ as the preterite of /to dig/ are both in Shakespeare, and the latter is also in Milton and in the Authorized Version of the Bible.† (source)

Moreover, this perfect participle, thus put in place of the preterite, was further reinforced by the fact that it was the adjectival form of the verb, and hence collaterally familiar.† (source)

[17] Thus, no less than 57 per cent of the oral errors reported by the teachers of grades III and VII involved the use of the verb, and nearly half of these, or 24 per cent, of the total, involved a confusion of the past tense form and the perfect participle.† (source)

Lounsbury says that /boughten/ probably originated in the Northern [/i. e./, Lowland Scotch] dialect of English, "which …. inclined to retain the full form of the past participle," and even to add its termination "to words to which it did not properly belong.† (source)

Whatever the true cause of the substitution of the preterite for the perfect participle, it seems to be a tendency inherent in English, and during the age of Elizabeth it showed itself even in the most formal speech.† (source)

The misuse of the perfect participle for the preterite, now almost the invariable rule in vulgar American, is common to many other dialects of English, and seems to be a symptom of a general decay of the perfect tenses.† (source)

Some of the more familiar conjugations of verbs in the American common speech, as recorded by Charters or Lardner or derived from my own collectanea, are here set down: /Present/ /Preterite/ /Perfect Participle/ Am was bin (or ben)[20] Attack attackted attackted (Be)[21] was bin (or ben) [20] Beat beaten beat Become[22] become became Begin begun began Bend bent bent Bet bet bet Bind bound bound Bite bitten bit Bleed bled bled Blow blowed (or blew) blowed (or blew) Break broken broke…† (source)

/To hold/ and /to sit/ belong to the same class; their original perfect participles were not /held/ and /sat/, but /holden/ and /sitten/.† (source)

Thus, the relative frequency of confusions between the past tense forms of verbs and the perfect participles drops from 24 per cent to 5 per cent, and errors based on double negatives drop to 1 per cent. But this improvement in one direction merely serves to unearth new barbarisms in other directions, concealed in the oral tables by the flood of errors now remedied.† (source)

The first project was, to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because, in reality, all things imaginable are but norms.† (source)

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