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 ...

Last night, Joe dreamt of Mary. Or would it be better to say that he dreamed of her? More important: How can you know for sure? Past participles confuse a lot of people. Take it from someone whose ...

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 ...

To talk about something you did in the past, you're going to need the perfect ‎‎ tense. The perfect tense is made up of two parts. The first part is often the verb avoir ‎- ‎to have and the second ...

Present and past particples are used as parts of certain verb constructions but they can be used in a number of different ways. Present participle (verb-ing) clauses can be used without a subject ...