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Mastergarett Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Honored and humiliated

This my sentence. " Should I feel honored or humiliated ".Why past participle is used for example honored and humiliated.Someone can help me this question.This is my first post.So please someone teach me in detail so that i can understand.Thanks in advance.I just catching up in my English
  

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Hi, Past participles are commonly used as adjectives. eg a sick man / He seems sick. eg a cooked chicken / This chicken looks cooked eg a broken arm / My arm feels broken eg an honoured soldier / I feel honoured Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, Past participles are commonly used as adjectives.
  • eg a sick man / He seems sick.
  • eg a cooked chicken / This chicken looks cooked eg a broken arm / My arm feels broken eg an honoured soldier / I feel honoured Clive
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Hi,



Past participles are commonly used as adjectives.

eg a sick man / He seems sick.

eg a cooked chicken / This chicken looks cooked

eg a broken arm / My arm feels broken

eg an honoured soldier / I feel honoured



Clive
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The past participle of sick is sicked right ? I checked in the dictionary.How to know past participle acts as adjectives ? Can you tell me the title/topic of this words so that i can check in the internet.By the way thanks Clive
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Hi,

The past participle of sick is sicked right ? I checked in the dictionary. No.

'Sick' is not a verb. The verb is 'sicken', past participle 'sickened'.



How to know past participle acts as adjectives ? Can you tell me the title/topic of this words so that i can check in the internet. Search for eg 'participial adjectives', eg 'past participles
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