Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: A primer on past participles for the sticklers among us

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 ...
The New York Times

Are Participles a Thing of the Past?

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Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: We understand you believing this is a grammatical error

I saw you working hard. I appreciate you working hard. At a glance, these sentences seem grammatically identical. But in fact, the grammar of the second one is wildly ...