Yesterday evening, I went to the supermarket. I bought lots of delicious food and I spent a lot of money. When I arrived home at eight o'clock, I made a tasty supper and ate it all myself! Yum yum! We ...

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 ...

Mastering English tenses is crucial for fluency, enabling precise communication of when actions occur. The English tense system organizes time into past, present, and future, each with simple, ...

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 ...

Today, let's weed our grammatical garden. Betty Lundy of West Point, Mississippi, wonders how to say that her son removed weeds yesterday with a Weed Eater. Should she say, "he weed eated the lawn," ...