What is the difference between simple past and past participle?

Answer 1

The simple past tense is the past form of the verb. It expresses a completed action and/or an action that took place at a specific time.

Example 1:

My mother decided it would be best to prepare the dinner earlier than planned.

Example 2:

The water seeped through the cracks in the walls as the building began to decay.

The past participle may be used in both active and passive voices:

forming the perfect: The chicken has eaten.forming the passive voice: The chicken was eaten.

modifying a noun, with active sense: our fallencomrades

modifying a noun, with passive sense: the attachedfiles

modifying a verb or sentence, with passive sense: Seenfrom this perspective, the problem presents no easy solution.

As noun-modifiers, participles usually precede the noun (like adjectives), but in many cases they can or must follow it:

• The visiting dignitaries devoured the bakedapples.
• Please bring all the documents required.
• The difficulties encountered were nearly insurmountable.

For regular verbs the past participle ends in -ed, irregular past participle verbs often follow the format -en or -ne, examples:

beaten /done /fallen /seen.