Why do we use part participle?

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Hoca  #150756  Sun, 23 Oct 05 06:38 AM
In simple present or past tense when we make questions or negativesentences we use the verb with no endings or different form. But why in perfect tense we always use the past participle form of the verbs whatever the sentence is? Or does my question have no reason? I am just curious about it...
  
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CalifJim  #150760  Sun, 23 Oct 05 06:49 AM
I don't think there is an exact reason why we use the past participle to form the perfect tenses.  It's just that English works that way.   It's just the definition of what a perfect tense is!  The forms developed throughout history to what they are today, and this is just how they are in modern English.  Most of the languages of Western Europe (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, etc.) all have the same pattern or a very similar pattern for the perfect tenses.

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