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“Overrode” vs “Overridden”
I got into an argument about the sentence "Have you overrode SomeThingamajig?"
I thought that "have overrode" is incorrect, and should be "overrode" or "have overridden", or perhaps "did override".
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Usage question: “I hadn't drank any coffee before I lived in Italy.”
Ok, so as an English teacher, I know that in the present and past perfect tenses, the auxiliary verb have is followed by the past participle form of the verb.
Using most verbs, I find that this is ...