<p>Why is the part in parentheses correct?</p>
<p>The ribbon shirt, now (worn) throughout the southwestern US on special occasions, is based on a style imported by settlers and adapted by the Osage Nation in the early 1900s.</p>
<p>I thought you needed the simple past - not the past participle. I thought it needed to be changed to "wore"</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>If you put “wore,” that means they used to wear it and are not wearing it anymore. However, that is not what the sentence is trying to say. The sentence intends to portary that they are currently being worn. </p>
<p>You could test it by substituting the relative phrase to “The ribbon shirt, which is now being ____…” etc. Would wore work? No - worn does.</p>
<p>So even though there isn’t a world like “has” or “have”, use the past participle?</p>
<p>hmmm it is a little late but from what i gather from that sentence, worn sounds a word that begins an adjective phrase describing the shirts and thus not implicated in any action</p>
<p>so the past participle is used as an adjective</p>
<p>like so:</p>
<p>the apples, eaten by my grizzly of a brother, are no longer on the table</p>
<p>for future reference, has and have are not the only modal verbs that signal the need for a participle: “by tommorrow, all the apples will be eaten”</p>
<p>nice to see an old warrior still waging war with the SAT</p>
<p>haha how are you doing antonioray?</p>
<p>Are you a current senior too who is gonna give it another try?</p>
<p>Thanks for the explanation. So do all adjective phrases use the past participle? If not, what triggers this particular one to use the part participle?</p>
<p>no i dont even know whether i’ll give it another try, as I’m already in college and I didnt do exactly terrible. Neither did you, as I remember; a 2270 is great, and if your score has improved since last December, even better.</p>
<p>hmmm I shoudnt have said adjective phrases because some adjective phrases can contain verbals like infinitives and still be descriptive of a noun.</p>
<p>worn is by itself an adjective in the above sentence, and yes, “wear” and “worn” cannot be adjectives. Participles, such as wearing and worn are indeed adjectives.</p>
<p>So to answer your second question, one grounded on my mistake, no, not all adjective phrases use the past participle. But adjectives cannot be conjugated in tense.</p>
<p>Oh I see.</p>
<p>I actually got a 2270 last June (got a 2250 in December). My highest is a 2330 in March.</p>
<p>I hope college is treating you well. If you’re in college, why are you considering taking it again? Thinking of transferring?</p>