I’m a little fussy about past participles. Unjustifiably fussy. It may have to do with the fact that I married someone from small-town Massachusetts, where everything is “I have ate this” and “I ...

A lot of adults gave up on grammar long ago. They didn’t learn as much as they would have liked in school. Now there’s too much too learn. Amid a sea of gibberish about sentence-ending prepositions, ...

In this English lesson, we’ll break down what past participles are, how to form them, and how to use them correctly in sentences and tenses.

Last week we talked about how to look up past participles in your dictionary. Here's a condensed lesson: For any irregular verb, the past tense and past participle are listed right after the entry ...

After an exercise on verb tenses in which a number of her students wrote (among other things) that the past participle of freeze is “froozen,” Jules the Crazy of Mildly Melancholy finds herself ...