Everybody, study your English

[fuzzyjay]

OK, I'm tired of the present perfect tense (and anything else using a past participle) getting messed up. This is from one of my friends' posts on FaceBook:

"Rusty has gave up!"

Take this test, and if you get any wrong, keep studying:

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/pperf2.htm

Comments

[boyshapedbox.livejournal.com]

I got all but one correct.

I have never ever used the word "swum" as a past-tense for swim. Weird.

[beg1n.livejournal.com]

That's the one I missed!

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

It's past participle:

I swim.
I swam.
I have swum.

I drink.
I drank.
I had drunk.

I eat.
I ate.
I have eaten.

I choose.
I chose.
I have chosen.

I go.
I went.
I had gone.

Here's a weird one:
I come.
I came.
I have come.

Some say the irregular past participles are disappearing. Could be.

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

It's nice to see that you came at the end.

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

Hah! You could have said I came in the end... ;-)

[fuzzbelly.livejournal.com]

You came in whose end?

I was also ignorant of the word swum. I'm sure it was due to poor memory and not the fault of my educators.

[fr-defenestrato.livejournal.com]

I got 'swum' right, but it still sounds a little odd.

I like the past participle-coining exchange in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?:

NICK: ... my wife's gone into the can with a liquor bottle, and she winks at me... winks at me!...

MARTHA (sadly): She's never wunk at you; what a shame...

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed that, especially making 100%:)

[trulygrateful.livejournal.com]

I'm proud to report that I got all of them correct except "swum" - whod've thunk?

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

the only way in which I'm 20/20

but I hate using these cause they all sound like

"Mumsy, I'm taking the corgis out for a walk on the estate, the little darlings have been chewing up the persian rugs beneath the grand piano all through teatime. Pip pip!"

[2ndbanana.livejournal.com]

Yay! I got them all right, too. But I DID have to think about "swum" a little bit. It's not a word I use a whole heck of a lot.