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Teo  #431206  Tue, 16 Oct 07 01:04 AM
The highly prized euphony of the language was broken down, and the text read too choppily to be easily intelligible.
Is "read" in the above sentence a past tense form or a past participle?
  
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Grammar Geek  #431219  Tue, 16 Oct 07 02:09 AM

The text was read ... passive past tense. The "was" carries over from the first part of the sentence.
  
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