Re: USAGE: gotten, boughten

<<Elliot Lash mentioned that:

>But you can't say you don't use Past Participles, they're everywhere in the
>language...no easy way to get rid of them.
Obviously I use them where necessary, but when choosing between perfect and
imperfect tenses, I almost always use the imperfect (as do most people
around here).

Perhaps a love of imperfect tense is genetic.  My dad even subsitutes it for
present forms. ("Let's went!")>>


Ummm...'went' isn't imperfect, it's simple past, effectively the same as the
perfect. The imperfect would be 'was going'.