Irregular past participles are any that don’t follow that formula: thought, been, sung, taken, given, swum, brought. The list goes on. Some irregular verbs use the same form for the simple past ...

The form of the verb that goes with “have,” the past participle, can trip up a lot of English-language users. June Casagrande shows us where to find the right word in the dictionary.

But in colloquial English, there’s a tendency to use the past form as the participle form as well. Someone gets “beat up” rather than “beaten up.” If you are cheated, ...