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In Gaelic, the role of the past participle in passive-like constructions (The door was shut) is taken on by the verbal adjective

Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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-a participle is a word that comes from a verb and used as an adjective. A past participle is the same as a participle except it is in past tense form. (I painted the room. Vs. I have painted the room).
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 In Gaelic, the role of the past participle in passive-like constructions (''The door was shut'') is taken on by the [[Verbal Adjective (definition)|verbal adjective]]
+==See Also==
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 ==References==
+*Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
-Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997.
+*Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-Matthews, P. H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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