| 词组 | passed, past |
| 释义 | passed, past The thrust of the advice in all the handbooks and schoolbooks is that the unwary and unsophisticated student should not confuse the homophones passed (past tense and past participle of pass) and past (variously a noun, adjective, adverb, and preposition). Passed and past are originally the same word; the adjective and preposition are derived from the past participle of the verb, and the noun and adverb are derived by functional shift from the adjective. The spelling past was at one time used for both the past tense and past participle: • I did not tell you how I past my time yesterday — Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella, 25 Jan. 1711 • ... he was so much offended ... that he past the latter part of his life in a state of hostility —Samuel Johnson, Preface to Johnson's edition of Shakespeare, 1765 • He past; a soul of nobler tone —Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850 (OED) • The bitter cup is from him past —Jonathan Swift, "Ode to Dr. William Sancroft," 1692 • I know what has past between you —Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, 1773 (OED) Our latest citations show no instances of the spelling past used for the past tense or past participle of the verb; passed is the only spelling in current use for these functions. Past is becoming archaic as a spelling for the verb's inflected forms. It is, of course, still used for the adjective, preposition, noun, and adverb. The recommended differentiation actually seems to have taken root in the language, in this case. |
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