已失去動詞特點的分詞：
a/以-en(或-n)結尾的過去分詞
有不少過去分詞已失去動詞特點，成為純粹的形容詞，它們有些以-en(或-n)結尾：
His honesty is a proven fact.

I like frozen fruit.

This is the tomb of forgotten heroes.

How hot is molten iron?

It is said the devil has cloven hoofs.

Some drunken sailors are fighting in the street.

Do you see the hidden meaning of this letter?

下面詞組中也包含這種分詞：
 driven snow, woven thread, sawn timber, hewn timber, a sunken cheek, shrunken clothes, a rotten egg, a shorn lamb, a gaven image, a terror-stricken child, a down-trodden people, ill-gotten money, a swollen face, a carven image, his broken promise.

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