Re: USAGE: gotten, boughten
| From: | Eli Ewing <celticslim@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 5:44 |
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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!")
Eli
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