Something Randy Jackson said on "American Idol" last night:
"You sung..."
Yo, yo. Don't you mean "sang"?
I know he's a musician, not a grammarian, but I've recently heard a number of people using past participles instead of past tense. A common one you might have heard before: "I seen it."
Many times, the past participle is the same as the past-tense form (e.g., "I looked"/"I have looked")--but not always!
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
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