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I heard a guy from Manchester, UK said —
It was the best restaurant I have ever went to.
And Google offers 23 million pages for the query "have ever went to", and only 3 millions for "I have ever gone to".
Is this form correct? Has the grammar changed?
"I have ever gone to" is definitely better than "I have ever went to." I would consider the latter to be wrong. – Daniel – 2013-06-19T13:53:57.090
3Google's initial "guestimates" for text strings containing common words are often appalingly inaccurate. If you force it to actually *show* you all instances of "the best restaurant I have ever went to", you'll find there are only 17 (one being this question itself, several others being duplicates of each other). But you'll get bored scrolling through instances of *"the best restaurant I have ever been to"* - the initial estimate of 1,170,000 results might actually be true (or even an underestimate). – FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica – 2013-06-19T15:58:55.737
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Some relevant discussion on ELU: http://english.stackexchange.com/a/31454/28567
– snailplane – 2013-06-19T17:08:44.177