I saw this in an email message this morning.<\/p>\n
Problem:<\/strong> Explanation:<\/strong> The message writer was trying to say in the complete sentence that the time was after<\/em> 3:00 p.m. when someone saw something.<\/p>\n The word “after” in this context is a preposition.<\/p>\n In other words, the message writer should have used a preposition instead of a past participle, and this preposition should sound like “passed” — spelled P-A-S-S-E-D — and act as a synonym for the preposition “after”.<\/p>\n This gives us the solution. The writer should have used the preposition “past” — spelled P-A-S-T — which means beyond in time<\/em>.<\/p>\n Solution:<\/strong> I saw this in an email message this morning. Problem: The writer used a past participle where a preposition was required. Explanation: The word “passed” — spelled P-A-S-S-E-D — in the expression “it was passed 3:00 pm” is the past participle of the verb “pass”. The message writer was trying to say in the complete…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prepositions","category-verbs"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe writer used a past participle where a preposition was required.<\/p>\n
\nThe word “passed” — spelled P-A-S-S-E-D — in the expression “it was passed 3:00 pm” is the past participle of the verb “pass”.<\/p>\n
\n“… it was past 3:00 pm …”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"