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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Was take?
I already know those facts that took is in simple past and taken is the past participle. What about these sentences.
1. We had a conversation just before this picture was taken.
Normally, past participle verbs go along with "has/have". So what can you say about this sentence? Is it grammatically correct?
1. We had a conversation just before this picture was taken.
Normally, past participle verbs go along with "has/have". So what can you say about this sentence? Is it grammatically correct?
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Anonymous past participle verbs go along with "has/have" Correct. That's to form the perfect tenses. But they also go along with forms of be ( is, are, am, was, were, has been, have been, had been, ...
- Anonymous past participle verbs go along with "has/have" Correct.
- That's to form the perfect tenses.
- But they also go along with forms of be ( is, are, am, was, were, has been, have been, had been, ...
- ) to form passive tenses.
- before this picture was taken is correct.
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Anonymouspast participle verbs go along with "has/have"Correct. That's to form the perfect tenses.
But they also go along with forms of be (is, are, am, was, were, has been, have been, had been, ...) to form passive tenses.
... before this picture was taken is correct.
Here's a whole list of possibilities. The
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