A Word, Please: Understanding past participles is key to grammar. A lot of adults gave up on grammar long ago. They didn’t learn as much as they would have liked in school.

Use the Past Participle (V3) of the Main Verb: Always use the past participle form of the main verb in the passive sentence. Example: read → read, write → written, eat → eaten.

Here are four verbs with tricky past tenses. Bear. When your verb has homonyms, its dictionary entry can feel like a maze. When you look up “bear,” for example, you have to skim past all the ...

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, sometimes you get ...

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 ...

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 ...