followed
- 1Simple past and past participle of follow.
The dog followed its owner all the way home in the rain.
Reporters followed the story closely for several weeks.
Note
One spelling does double duty as simple past and past participle, so only the surrounding words tell them apart: she followed is past, she has followed is perfect, and the rules were followed is passive. Because the sequence meaning can stand without an object, it often closes a clause on its own (in the silence that followed). The participle also introduces what comes next: soup, followed by fish.
Nobody spoke in the long silence that followed.
The instructions were followed to the letter.
followed is a form of follow
follow, verb: To come or go after something else in a sequence or order. Full entry
- Spelling
- follow → followed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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