Question

What is the past participle of ‘leave’?

Answer 1

Hint: Verbs are words that indicate an action being done. ‘Leave’ as given in the question is also a verb. It means ‘to go away, to abandon”. These verbs have many different forms according to their usage; for e.g. present, present third-person, past, past participle etc.

Complete answer:
The past participle form of a verb is used to form sentences in the perfect tense. The perfect tense can further be of the present, past, or future. Let us take the verb ‘leave’ from the question.
- I always leave my belongings at my friend’s home. This sentence is in the present tense.
- I left my dog at my friend’s place. This sentence is in the past tense.
- I will leave it on the table after I’m done using it. This sentence is in the future tense.

Now to convert these sentences into the perfect tense, we will be using the past participle form of leave. For e.g.
- I have left my belongings at my friend’s home. This sentence is in the present perfect tense.
- I had left my dog at my friend’s place. This is in the past perfect tense.
- I will have left it on the table by 8 o’clock. This is in the future perfect tense.

The form of the verb used here was past participle form. Therefore, the past participle form of the verb ‘leave’ is ‘left’.

Note: We can see that the past participle and the simple past form of ‘leave’ are the same. But it is not the case for all verbs. There are certain verbs who have a different past participle form. For e.g. break – broke – broken, begin – began – begun, sing – sang – sung, etc. (they are in the pattern present-past-past participle).