inspected
Sayin-SPEKT-id/ɪnˈspɛktɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of inspect.
Engineers inspected the bridge for cracks after the earthquake.
The building was inspected and declared safe to occupy.
Note
One spelling does two jobs, because inspect takes the regular -ed ending. In an active clause it is the simple past (the engineers inspected the bridge). After have it builds the perfect (they have inspected it), and after be it forms the passive (the building was inspected). To tell them apart, look at what comes just before the verb: no auxiliary means past tense, and have or be means participle.
inspected is a form of inspect
inspect, verb: To examine something carefully and critically in order to find problems or judge its condition. Full entry
- Forms
- inspectinspects he/she/itinspecting -ing forminspected past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- inspect → inspected: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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