What are past/present participles? ASAP

Question

anonymous · Answer

Rules to add suffixes to words (verbs) depending on the time they occurred.

vianne · Answer

Like jumped?

anonymous · Answer

Yep jumped, jumping will jump.

anonymous · Answer

*or prefixes.

vianne · Answer

Umm.. What about.. (is) eating?

uh60blackhawk · Answer

eating past tense will be ate

anonymous · Answer

Yeah that's right.

vianne · Answer

okay..
I put down "(is) eating" Present 
Or is it Present Participle?

anonymous · Answer

Yep same thing.

vianne · Answer

Then... Why is it that they add the "Present/Past Participle" or "Past/Present"

mrnebula · Answer

A. S. A. P. Anti Snipe At Pandas

anonymous · Answer

"Is eating" involves "is," a conjugated form of the verb to be, and the present participle. Together we call it the Present Progressive tense or the Present Continuous tense.

anonymous · Answer

You can see a past participle in verbs such as "have eaten" (Present Perfect tense) and "is eaten" (Passive voice of the Simple Present eat/eats).