This section is from the book "Lessons In English", by Chestine Gowdy, Lora M. Dexheimer. Also available from Amazon: Lessons in English.
A Participle is a verbal used as an adjective and not having the root form of the verb (§ 65).
Verbs have two participles, the present participle, ending in ing, and the past participle, which generally ends in ed, d, t, en, or n, but which sometimes has no suffix.
 
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