Past participles as adjectives?

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I have a doubt about the usage of past participles when used as adjectives. For instance:

1. The image shown on the home page is wrong.
2. When don't get the expected thing, I usually get angry.
3. And suddenly, they saw a series of confounded Ferris wheels moving towards nothing.

In above examples, "shown", "expected", and "confounded" are being used as adjectives. What do you call such verbs? I know these sentences can be constructed in other way.

For instance:

1a. The image that appears on the home page is wrong.
1b. The image appearing on the home page is wrong.
?1c. The image showed on the home page is wrong.

>> I put a question mark before "1c". I think idiomatically, it's not correct.

Please help me out!

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

harry1999>> I put a question mark before "1c". I think idiomatically, it's not correct.

It is not correct because "showed" is the past form, not the past participle.

Past participles can be used as modifiers. Some qualify as adjectives; others do not.

I am very interested in this topic. (Interested qualifies as an adjective. It can be modified by an adverb.)
I am more interested than he is. (It is also gradable.)

The image is very(?) shown on the screen. (WRONG! Shown does not qualify as an adjective. It can not be modified by an adverb.)

Sometimes the modifier is the head of a reduced relative clause.
The image (which is) shown on the screen is blurry.

Harry1999 · Answer

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