The form of the verb that goes with “have,” the past participle, can trip up a lot of English-language users. June Casagrande shows us where to find the right word in the dictionary.

Past participles confuse a lot of people. ... In any aspect of language, the most natural-sounding, most popular form is correct about 99% of the time.

Last week we talked about how to look up past participles in your dictionary. Here's a condensed lesson: For any irregular verb, the past tense and past participle are listed right after the entry ...

Sometimes they marginalize the past form in favor of the participle. If you take French beyond a certain point, you have to deal with that weird past form of the verb in writing that few use in ...

The past participle, by contrast, is typically used in conjunction with “have” or “had” to form the present or past perfect — e.g., “I have walked or I had walked .” ...