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Re: USAGE: gotten, boughten

From:Eli Ewing <celticslim@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 5:44
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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