The present perfect has two parts - the main verb and the auxiliary verb. He has stopped breathing. She has gone for her ...

Now that I have your attention, I’d like to talk about dangling participles. This most famous of danglers is must-know stuff for any self-respecting smarty-pants. Not because the concept will help ...

The past perfect is used to make it clear that one event happened before another in the past. In episode 91 of the flatmates, ...

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 ...

In this English lesson, we’ll break down what past participles are, how to form them, and how to use them correctly in sentences and tenses.

You may have heard of "dangling participles," but knowing that you should avoid those doesn't much help if you're not sure what a participle is to begin with. So here's a quick guide:A participle is ...

After an exercise on verb tenses in which a number of her students wrote (among other things) that the past participle of freeze is “froozen,” Jules the Crazy of Mildly Melancholy finds herself ...

I have a true story for you, about a rare participle that brought two hearts together and sparked a romance. You may find a tear welling up as you read this, despite the material about inflectional ...