Past participles confuse a lot of people. Take it from someone whose Boston-area in-laws opt for forms like “I should have ate” and “I could have went.” ...

The form of the verb that goes with “have,” the past participle, can trip up a lot of English-language users. June Casagrande shows us where to find the right word in the dictionary.

Sometimes they marginalize the past form in favor of the participle. If you take French beyond a certain point, you have to deal with that weird past form of the verb in writing that few use in ...