Past Participle Review

Eat - Ate - Eaten. 'Eaten' is a past participle verb, but how and when is it used? Here's a quick review and quiz.

The past participle is used in both active and passive sentences:

• Forming the perfect tense: The fish has eaten.
• Forming the passive tense: The chicken was eaten.
• Modifying a noun, with active voice: our fallen friends.
• Modifying a noun, with passive voice: the attached pictures.
• Modifying a verb or sentence, with passive voice: Seen from this view, the exit can be clearly seen.

As noun-modifiers, participles usually precede the noun (like adjectives), but in many cases they can or must follow it:

• The children ate the baked cake.
• Bring all the paperwork required.
• The problems encountered were many.

Link: Verb Tense Review

• 1 - ___ up by lawyer parents, it was natural that John wanted to become a lawyer too.
  
  Bringed
  Bring
  Bought
  Brought
  
  
• 2 - He was ___ to be the captain by the team's manager.
  
  choose
  chosed
  chose
  chosen
  
  
• 3 - Have you ever ___ off a high-board in a swimming pool.
  
  dove
  dived
  dive
  dives
  
  
• 4 - Paula was ___ to work by her husband.
  
  drived
  drive
  drove
  driven
  
  
• 5 - ___ the options, I think driving to the park is the best choice.
  
  Gave
  Give
  Gived
  Given
  
  
• 6 - I've never ___ on a stage.
  
  sung
  sing
  sang
  singed
  
  
• 7 - She has ___ all the money from the bank account.
  
  withdrewed
  withdrawn
  withdraw
  withdrew
  
  
• 8 - Has he ___ surgery?
  
  undergone
  underwent
  undergoed
  undergo
  
  
• 9 - The building was badly ___ by the explosion.
  
  shaken
  shaked
  shook
  shake
  
  
• 10 - The kite is being ___ by the wind.
  
  blow
  blowed
  blew
  blown