In English this form of the verb, together with the auxiliary have, gives the perfect aspect. Some examples (with the past participles in bold) are: Have you eaten the cake? ; Kim has had flu. There are many irregularities in the form of English past participles: some verbs have distinct past participle forms, such as eaten, known, forgotten; regular verbs, though, have past participles identical to their PAST TENSE, such as worked, left, and decided. Distinguish between the past tense and a past participle are shown in (15):