In a recent column, I explained that past participles are easy. They’re all in the dictionary. So if you just know how to find them, you never again have to worry about whether it’s “We had sang” or ...

I’m a little fussy about past participles. Unjustifiably fussy. It may have to do with the fact that I married someone from small-town Massachusetts, where everything is “I have ate this” and “I ...