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Passed vs. Past
Passed
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Past
/pɑːst/Examples:
It's half past ten.The familiar, doubly bent figure flashed past;'They are all in the past,' the Ghost said.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Passed is a form of the verb to pass and indicates an action; think of it as something that has moved by.
- Past can be a noun, adjective, adverb, or preposition, but it primarily relates to time or position, suggesting something that previously existed or occurred.
- Remember the phrase passed the test to recall that passed involves an action or motion.
- Use past when discussing periods of time, like in the past—it's about when something happened, not the action that was taken.
- If youre talking about going by something or someone, passed involves the movement, whereas past might describe the position, as in walked past the house.'
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