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What is the third column?
In a verb table, every verb has three columns. Teachers often call the last one the third column. Its grammar name is the past participle.
1st · V12nd · V23rd · V3
Part 2 · 3rd column · V3
The third
column
The past participle lives in the third column of the verb table. We use it after have and has: I have eaten, she has gone. Here the cool light shows you every third column.
I have eatenShe has goneeverneveralreadyjust
The verb table1 / 7
V1
1st column
go
V2
2nd column
went
V3
3rd column
gone
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verbs to explore
4
verb families
2
helpers: have, has
The prism lab
Bend the light. Find the third column.
Violet and blue light bend the most. Drag the light along its arc until the cool part of the rainbow rests on the glass tablet, and the past participle appears.
Prism lab · Part 2
Drag the light to aim the rainbow
Find the past participle of
go
Drag the light on the left. When the cool light rests on the glass tablet, the 3rd column appears.
Think first
Dad has ? to work.
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How it works
The third column, made clear.
What it is, when to use it, and the four families every verb belongs to. Tap any word to hear it.
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have / has + V3
The third column needs a helper.
I · you · we · they
have eaten
he · she · it
has eaten
No: I haven't seen it.
Question: Has she gone?
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Four verb families
Irregular verbs belong to four families. Same colour means same word. Learn the family and the verb is easy to remember.
Three different words. Learn all three by heart.
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Ever and never
Talk about life experience. Ever is for questions, never means not one time.
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Gone or been?
Tom has gone to Paris.
He is in Paris now.
Tom has been to Paris.
He went and came back.
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Regular verbs are easy
For regular verbs, the second and third columns are the same: just add -ed.
I have finished my homework.
Flash cards
Flip a card, hear the past.
Twelve verbs every A1 learner meets. Tap a card to see and hear its 3rd column.
Part 2 games
Ready? Play with the light.
Short, fast games with simple sentences. Every game here practises the past participle.
Next · Part 1
Go back to the past simple.
Finished actions: yesterday, last week, two days ago.
