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How to spell passed

hear it/pæst/verbSchwa and roots

What it means: To move past something or someone.

In a sentence: The train passed through the tunnel quickly.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double s. Often misspelled as pased or passd.

Sounds like, but is not: past. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: passing, passage, passport, bypass, surpass. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Passed comes from the verb pass, which entered English from Old French ‘passer,’ meaning ‘to go by’ or ‘to cross.’ Over time, pass developed many meanings, from moving past something to succeeding on a test, and passed is its regular past-tense form.

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