prompted
SayPROMP-tidUS/ˈpɹɑmptɪd/UK/ˈpɹɒmptɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of prompt.
Falling sales prompted the company to cut its prices sharply.
The investigation was prompted by several customer complaints last spring.
Note
A regular -ed form, so one spelling covers both the past tense and the participle, and only the surrounding words tell you which you are reading. Every sense of prompt takes an object, so the participle settles easily into the passive: an actor prompted with a forgotten line, a user prompted for input, a language model prompted with plain text. After have it forms the perfect: the complaints had prompted a review.
prompted is a form of prompt
prompt, verb: To set something in motion or bring it about. Full entry
- Spelling
- prompt → prompted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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