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Category: [Education] Where Have You "Went", Past Participle? Part of an Ongoing Grammar Nazi Series

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Page Rating: (0 votes) Your Rating: Currently 0.0/5 Stars. 1 2 3 4 5	Created By: grog (79) Date Created: 02/15/2008 Last Updated: 02/15/2008 05:14PM

(15 Feb 2008)

Do You Smell That?

Consider the following sentence, from the perspective of "grammatical correctness".

1a) I should have went to Wal-Mart.

Does anything smell off? (Please try to subdue any misgivings you might have about Walmart in particular or "big-box" stores in general.) An increasing number of native speakers of English might not notice any unpleasant odors, but this trend doubtless has countless anal-retentive grammar Nazis wrinkling their noses in disgust, at least those who actually have a reasonable grasp of standard, prescriptive English grammar. Let's give something else a whiff.

1b) I should have gone to Wal-Mart.

Principal Parts: Another One Bites the Dust

(To be continued...)

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Comments

Anonymous User

02/15/2008 07:07PM

what is this? i feel like i'm taking the SATs again.

grog

02/15/2008 08:08PM

You mean you don't remember the experience of taking the SAT fondly? Life was simpler then, when we were led to believe that facile multiple-choice standardized tests were actually meaningful. Regardless, for better or for worse, concerns like this are more within the realm of the TOEFL (Test Of English as a Foreign Language) than the SAT. In some ways, greater understanding of and proficiency with the formalized "rules" of English is demanded from those to whom it is a foreign language than from those to whom it is native.

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