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Identify the present participle and past participle for the verb. Begin

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Present would be "beginning" and past would be "begun"
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Answer: present participle: beginning. Past participle: begun.

Explanation: a participle is a word formed from a verb and used as an adjective or a noun. In English participles are also used to make compound verb forms. To form a present participle, we need to add "-ing" to the root of the verb, and to form a past participle (on a regular verb) we add "-ed" to the root of the verb. In the case of the verb "to begin" the present participle is "beginning" and the past participle is "begun" (it is irregular).

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