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In grammatical analysis, a form of the verb. English has two forms. The present participle ends in -ing; for example, ‘working’ in ‘They are working’ (The verb's tense does not have to be present when the present participle is used, for example ‘they used to be working’). The past participle ends in -ed in regular verbs; for example, ‘trained’ in ‘They have been trained well’. In irregular verbs, the past participle has a special form, for example: drive/driven; light/lit; burn/burned/burnt.
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The perfect participle as well as gerund can also be translated in the past participle and often with a be-verb to make a passive construction.
Periphrastic renderings and their element order in Old English ... by Ogura, Michico / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
Marcel's reading would thus have the adjectival perfect participle apply to "actio" instead of "qualitatis," so that, instead of "quality" having being concentrated ("qualitatis in angustum coactae"), the reference would have been to a concentrated action ("in angustum coacta .
Platonic Theology by Celenza, Christopher S. / Renaissance Quarterly
Perfect participles (when "having" precedes past participles) also convey the relationship between two times.
Let me make one tense perfectly clear ... by Davis, Ron / The Masthead
 
 
 
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