TENSE TUESDAY: WORDS WITH TWO PAST PARTICIPLES

Hello, everyone! Today's Tense Tuesday begins with two sentences. Which one do you think is correct?

Sentence 1: I was bit by a dog. 

Sentence 2: I was bitten by a dog. 

The truth is that both are correct: the verb BITE has two possible past participles: BIT and BITTEN. There are many verbs in English that have two forms of the past participle. Here are some more:

GET: GOT, GOTTEN 

FORGET: FORGOT, FORGOTTEN 

DREAM: DREAMED, DREAMT

BURN: BURNED, BURNT

BEAT: BEAT, BEATEN

LIGHT: LIT, LIGHTED

SPILL: SPILLED, SPILT

We use the Past Participle with the PRESENT PERFECT and with the PASSIVE, for example, and in these cases you have two options for the Past Participle. 

Some of these past participle forms are more common in UK English and others are more common in American English. For example, verbs that end in "t" (like DREAMT and BURNT) are preferred in the UK. 

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