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

[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...