<span>The soldiers pushed long and hard. This ending to the sentence makes the word pushed and intransitive verb. Intransitive verbs are action verbs that express doable activities like the word push. Second thing is that a transitive verb does not have direct object receiving the said action. </span>
Participles come in two varieties: past and present. They are two of the five forms or principal parts<span> that every </span>verb has. They tell the time of when something happened. <span>Participles have three functions in sentences. They can be components of multipart verbs, or they can function as </span>adjectives<span> or </span>nouns<span>.</span>
The trust part of the word is a suffix.
