Which should you use, the passed or the past? The adjective past is used before a noun to refer to a period of time before the present. The noun phrase the past refers to the time before the present. The passed is incorrect.
| Incorrect: |
Many things happened in the passed year. |
| Correct: |
Many things happened in the past year. |
| Incorrect: |
It happened in the passed. |
| Correct: |
It happened in the past. |
