corresponded
- 1Simple past and past participle of correspond.
The two scientists corresponded regularly throughout the 1920s.
Each label corresponded to a numbered box in the warehouse.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. Alone it is the simple past (they corresponded for years), and after have it builds the perfect (they had corresponded since the war). Both living meanings of correspond, matching and exchanging letters, are intransitive, so the participle has no ordinary passive. A label corresponds to a box, but nothing is "corresponded" by anyone. The matching meaning takes to: each label corresponded to a numbered box.
corresponded is a form of correspond
correspond, verb: To be equivalent or similar to something in character, quantity, quality, structure, or function. Full entry
- Forms
- correspondcorresponds he/she/itcorresponding -ing formcorresponded past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- correspond → corresponded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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