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 ...

If you don’t know about past participles, it seems a lifetime isn’t enough to learn the answers to countless grammar conundrums like these. But in fact, to tackle these issues with 100% ...

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 ...

Indeed, languages with three forms for present, past and participle have a way of trying to make two things out of three. Sometimes they marginalize the past form in favor of the participle.

When Stewart starts to discuss an example by spelling out a phonetic equivalent for the profane past participle form of the word at issue, Gorsuch cuts him off. “I don’t want to go through the ...

When Abati recognised the former Ogun State governor, a deafening applause rented the church’s atmosphere.”(Abati’s Mother’s Burial: Amosun, Daniel in Popularity Contest, the Saturday Punch, July 20, ...

I WAS asked this seemingly simple grammar question last week by a member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum who goes by the username Baklis: “While reading your book English Plain and Simple, I came ...

But now what if you need to use the past tense or past participle of lay or lie? Yeah, that’s where it gets dicey. Lie / lay / lain Lie is the present tense. I’m going to lie down.

The "participle" part of the term dangling participle means the modifying phrase is built on either an "ing" form of a verb or on a past tense form. Sleeping, walking, having, being and running ...

Okay, now we're going to tackle the dangling participle. A participle is the form of the verb that has ing on the end of it. And when you begin a sentence with a participle, that phrase has to ...