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Paid or payed is the past tense of pay depending on the sense of pay. The first sense is the usual one of giving someone money while the second sense is to seal (the deck or seams of a wooden ship) with pitch or tar to prevent leakage. Per the OED, the only two senses that allow payed are: “13.
1. Looking at the OED, in Middle English the past tense of pray and pay were spelled in many different ways, including prade, praed, praid and payde, paied, paid, payed. These spellings don't seem to me to indicate any difference in pronunciation, so I would guess it's just chance they are now spelled differently. – Peter Shor.
Whilst it is difficult to fault 'Attention should be paid that this is a one-way street' as being ungrammatical, it would nonetheless be an unusual, and slightly clumsy way of putting it.
Other. Oct 28, 2007. #4. You have the answer. Both are correct, however, paid is more commonly recognised as correct. If you think this is confusing, wait until you get to learn about lead and lead. He was lead around by a leash. He was hit over the head by a lead pipe. :lol:
Consider punctilious, meticulous, and persnickety. punctilious: strictly attentive to minute details. meticulous: taking or showing extreme care about minute details. persnickety: paying extremely close attention to details. Also, consider " astute observer." Share. Improve this answer. edited Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40.
Explain that you still owe me for what you have not payed. In U.S. English I might say "Pay me in full or tell me how you are going to make it up to me." Or "Explain what you are going to do about it." You either have your pay or their Indebtedness.
Many ungrammatical sentences are understandable. The "odd" feeling you mention is ungrammaticality. Pay attention to is a fixed idiomatic phrase, and its object (me) is not an indirect object and therefore does not participate in Dative-Movement (give the book to her ~ give her the book); instead, it is really a direct object (of the phrase "pay attention to"), and may be passivized: She was ...
I would say "paid off". Susan’s speech and struggle during those rough times has borne fruit. or. Susan’s speech and struggle during those rough times has come to fruition. Susan’s speech and struggle during those rough times has been proved advantageous. Susan's speech and struggle during those rough times has been recompensed.
15. There's no special magic with " had had ", they don't really go together as a pair anymore than " had wanted " go together. So don't worry so much about how to use " had had " as a unit of grammar, they will come together naturally when you want to express the verb ' to have ' in the past perfect. Let's consider a different verb for a ...
In the 1960's, some music groups recorded tracks on songs that sounded like gibberish, but, if the record was played backward (remember, these were vinyl records, so you could place the record on your turntable, and the needle on the record, and turn the record with your fingertip), the gibberish would become ungarbled, and a clear message could be heard.