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how do you differentiate between past tense and past participle so easily?

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how to differentiate past tense and past participle easily? :-( :-? :?:
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I found this website information very easy to follow.

Just scroll down the page until you find a heading related to the difference between past tense and past participles.

https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/pa ... 0its%20own.
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thank you :-D
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Re: how do you differentiate between past tense and past participle so easily?

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Did you mean to inquire when to use the simple and perfect past in English?

I'd like to suggest that you consider using the simple past to describe a momentary action in one's own past, "done and dusted"
The perfect past describes a momentary action in one's past THAT ALSO CHANGED ONE'S STATE.

"The unknown person acted, but no-one noticed".
"The great leader has acted (and all of us now feel the consequences of that act)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZR64EF3OpA (Dorothy uses simple past, Oz uses perfect)
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