Learn English – the gram­mat­i­cal term for “‑ed” words like these

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In English we say things like:

  • a cal­i­brated de­vice
  • a dis­trib­uted prod­uct
  • a founded com­pany
  • a de­stroyed house

Those ‑ed words there all sig­nify that some verb (here re­spec­tively cal­i­brate, dis­tribute, found, or de­stroy) has been “done onto”
the noun that fol­lows it. What is the term for this gram­mat­i­cal de­vice? Or, what is a sin­gle term for some­thing hav­ing been done unto X as a
char­ac­ter­is­tic of that X?

As­sum­ing that we’re talk­ing only about words that de­rive from verbs and used with nouns
here like my ex­am­ples all do, can that gram­mat­i­cal term you’ve cho­sen
also be ap­plied to any sorts of words that do not end in ‑ed,
and are there any sorts of words that do end in ‑ed which this
gram­mat­i­cal term would not ap­ply equally to?

Best Answer

They are called the Past Participle. They can either be formed by adding the suffix ed

or be an irregular such as: eat-> eaten -> fight -> fought (not to be confused with The Past Simple which is simply the verb of past simple tenses clauses.

They can be many things in English.

just to name a few:

  • an adjective
  • the perfect module verbs
  • passive voice
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