how do you differentiate between past tense and past participle so easily?
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how do you differentiate between past tense and past participle so easily?
how to differentiate past tense and past participle easily?
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Re: how do you differentiate between past tense and past participle so easily?
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.
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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Re: how do you differentiate between past tense and past participle so easily?
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)
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)