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

[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...