Explain the grammar material: Past participle

Task 2

Grammar.

1. 
   Explain the grammar material: Past participle.
   

Past participle is a participle that typically expresses completed action, that is traditionally one of the principal parts of the verb, and that is traditionally used in English in the formation of perfect tenses in the active voice and of all tenses in the passive voice. Past participles are formed from verbs. Past participles (just like present participles) can be used as adjectives or used to form verb tenses.

Let's look at the verb “to whisper”:

Here's the past participle: whispered

Here it is used as an adjective: The whispered word

Here it is used to form a verb tense: The message was whispered.

There are two types of participles:

1. 
   The Past Participle (Past participles usually end with -ed, -d, -t, -en, or -n.)
   
2. 
   The Present Participle (Present participles end with -ing.)
   

Past and present participles are classified as verbals. (A verbal is a verb form that functions either as an adjective or a noun.)

2. Do the test on the theme Past participle.

1. 
   Show: Stewart hasn't up yet. He must have been delayed.
   

1. 
   shew
   
2. 
   showed
   
3. 
   shown
   

2. 
   Sleep: I was so exhausted after the exam that I for twelve hours.
   

1. 
   sleeped
   
2. 
   slept
   
3. 
   sleep
   

3. 
   Fall: The price of oil has rapidly since January.
   

1. 
   fell
   
2. 
   felt
   
3. 
   fallen
   

4. 
   Drink: It's so hot that I've five cans of Coke already this
   

afternoon.

1. 
   drank
   
2. 
   drunken
   
3. 
   drunk
   

5. 
   Write: How many pages have you for your homework?
   

1. 
   written
   
2. 
   wrote
   
3. 
   writen
   

6. 
   Swim: She's never in the sea before.
   

1. 
   swum
   
2. 
   swim
   
3. 
   swam
   

7. 
   Eat: You've my lunch! How dare you!
   

1. 
   ate
   
2. 
   aten
   
3. 
   eaten
   

8. 
   Bring: Duncan's here, and he's some sandwiches!
   

1. 
   brought
   
2. 
   brung
   
3. 
   braught
   

3. 
   Reading.
   

Read and answer the following questions.

An average child of 5 years old uses only 1,500 of the 150,000 "dictionary" words that a modern language contains. but this small treasury is used very intensively, by him during the years of learning, at the rate of about 1,000 words an hour, or from 7,000 to 15,000 words each day for an active child school quickly increases his vocabulary, but leaves him with less opportunity for using. At 10 years old, his treasury amounts to 7,000 words, of which about 30% are used actively-the remainder is seldom or never used and in an hour he will use about 700 words. By the time he enters university, his word inventory will have grown to 20,000 , and on graduation to 60,000 , but of these only 10%-20% will be in active use.

1. 
   According to the passage, in general, a 5-year old child ... .
   

1. 
   has an enormous, vocabulary for his age
   
2. 
   can learn 1,000 words in an hour
   
3. 
   knows, but doesn't use, about 150,000 words
   
4. 
   learns about 7.000 to 15.000 words each day
   
5. 
   uses only one percent of available words
   

2. 
   The passage tells us that when a child goes to school, ... .
   

1. 
   the amount of vocabulary he knows, and his usage of it, increase considerably
   
2. 
   he is able to use more than half of the words found in a standard dictionary
   
3. 
   he learns many words, but uses a smaller percentage of them than before
   
4. 
   he finds more opportunity to use his vocabulary
   
5. 
   he starts using about 7.000 words daily
   

3. 
   An average university student ... .
   

A) spends at least fifteen hours of a day listening or speaking

1. 
   uses about 7,000 words, though he knows almost all the vocabulary
   
2. 
   can only use half of the words he knows in everyday life
   
3. 
   graduates with less than half of the vocabulary of his mother tongue
   
4. 
   can actively use most of the words he has learnt during education
   

4. 
   Writing. Give some information about “Importance of technology is my life” (Write at least 80 words).