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Ive found the following example:

I heard my name being shouted.

In this case, they use an passive participle.

But if you want to connect two sentences, you do the following:

The house was built last year. It was sold yesterday.

to

The house built last year was sold yesterday.

Why don't they use a passive participial there like

The house was built last year was sold yesterday.

Is the following correct?:

Let's say I have the two sentences:

The house has been built last year. It has been recently sold.

would it be

The house been built last year, has been recently sold.

or would it be

The house built last year, has been recently sold.

I'm just wondering, why I do not use the auxiliary verb in passive past.

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    Built last year acts as an adjective phrase identifying the house.
    – Kate Bunting
    Aug 10, 2022 at 16:00
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    Questions starting with "Why don't they have ...?" all have the same answer: (a) there is no they, and (b) nobody knows why some individual phrases and words stick around and others don't. That would take recordings of every time a word was spoken for the last few centuries, and those are hard to come by.
    – John Lawler
    Aug 10, 2022 at 18:53
  • "Built last year acts as an adjective phrase identifying the house." I thought its an participle.
    – Hans Mustermann
    Aug 11, 2022 at 15:13
  • @JohnLawler Hey, I gave that answer once and it was downvoted. I guess if an established scholar says "nobody knows", this is a pearl of wisdom. If an indigent vagabond like myself says it, it's jejune and worthy of being tossed in the fire.
    – Pound Hash
    Aug 13, 2022 at 21:04
  • It's the truth in many cases. But not everybody wants to know the rules; some just want to think they're right.
    – John Lawler
    Aug 13, 2022 at 22:52

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