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Paint Paints Painted Has Painted Is Painting
Paint Paints Painted Has Painted Is Painting
In sentence (2) - s at the end of the verb is an agreement marker; it signifies that the
subject of the verb is the third person and is singular, and that the verb is the present
tense.
The suffix - ed in sentence 3 indicates past tense. As we see, it doesn’t add any lexical
meaning.