Use of ate and eaten.

Anonymous Sitting outside the other night I decided I wanted to go indoors because I was being ATE by mosquito's. I was teased about my poor grammar as I should have said "I am being EATEN by mosquito's. Please offer some tips for proper usage of the two words. Thank you! Doug

Both ate and eaten are awkward in that context.

“Ate” is simple past tense. I ate supper, My father ate a potato.
“Eaten” is a past participle. I was eaten alive by mosquitos (no apostrophe). I have eaten my supper. Father has eaten his potato. We will not go back outside for fear of being eaten by mosquitos.
The plural of mosquito is formed by adding an “s”. With an apostrophe, it would mean “belonging to”. The mosquito’s brothe

I agree with whomever said that mosquitoes don’t eat you. They drink your blood, much like we drink orange juice. The expression, ‘being eaten alive’, is figurative—it just feels like it.
I live in the ‘mosquito capital of Canada’. We (as do other cities) trap mosquitoes and count them in season. We hire dragonflies to hunt them.
Here's a link to a UTube shot of a mosquito getting its

Where I come from, "I'm being eaten by mosquitos" would be a normal and natural thing to say. Obviously "eaten" is used in a not-exactly-literal sense.

Where I live we have plenty of mosquitoes. Fortunately, the local "skeeters" don't like me much, and will only bite me if they're desperately hungry and can find no-one else. The Minnesota ones, however, are not picky at all.