[ladyjane]

We are eager for our students to be proved innocent.

Any English majors out there? Is it proved innocent or is it proven innocent??

[Mike Nifong]

They're not big on English in Durham !

[Mad-Margaret]

>>We are eager for our students to be proved innocent.

Any English majors out there? Is it proved innocent or is it proven innocent??<<

It's presumed innocent.

[ltc8k6]

Either way, it shows that he has flawed thinking.

There is no need or requirement for the players to be proven innocent.

What kind of person can he be to make a statement like that?

[darbymcgill]

Any English majors out there? Is it proved innocent or is it proven innocent??

I have always crinched on these threads when I read "proven".... I was taught it should be "proved"... It grates on me almost as bad as "for free"... but according to some academicians... see below...

even the FR spell checker doesn't like "proven"..... but...

PAST PARTICIPLE

is the third principal part of an English verb. In weak verbs, the pattern is glide, glided, glided; in strong verbs the pattern varies in form: it can be unchanging, as in set, set, set; it can change vowels for past tense and past participle, as in swim, swam, swum; it can change vowels and add a final -n or -en for the past participle, as in fly, flew, flown and drive, drove, driven; or it can have various combinations of these three general patterns. The forms of strong verb past participles are often in divided usage (show, showed, showed or shown; prove, proved, proved or proven). 1