The past participle has rarely been the star of the show- until today!
You can find past participles in more places than you expect! They're an ingredient in six different grammatical constructions: perfect verb tenses, the passive voice, adjectives, reduced relative clauses, past participial phrases, the modal perfect, and as adjectives. Episode 121 reviews and consolidates our work in four of these constructions, and gives an introductory explanation of two new ones- past participles in the modal perfect and as adjectives.
Listen to Episode 121 to finally get a complete picture of how to use this important and underestimated verb form.

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This week, Tim continues and completes his deep analysis of the passive voice, identifying and clarifying six unusual and advanced passive constructions.
Three of these constructions (for example, replacing BE with GET) are typical of conversational English, so learning them can help you understand and use everyday language with better accuracy and confidence. The other three constructions are common in written and formal English, and will help you understand the news and intelligent conversation in greater detail.

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In English, we have two ways of constructing sentences- the active voice and the passive voice. The active voice is the standard, common way to build sentences, while we use the passive voice most commonly in written and academic English. In other words- if you want to understand and use English at an advanced level- then you need the passive voice!
Every passive voice sentence includes a past participle. So now is a great time to listen to Episode #115 on irregular past participles, and also Episode #116 on common pronunciation difficulties with regular past participles.

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