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Victo Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
‘proved’ vs ‘proven’
‘It was proved/proven to be true’.
I think that ‘proven’ sounds better here. Or she we just use ‘proven’ for the adjectival form, as in ‘a proven success’?
Thank you.
I think that ‘proven’ sounds better here. Or she we just use ‘proven’ for the adjectival form, as in ‘a proven success’?
Thank you.
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Am Heritage Dict Usage Note: Prove has two past participles: proved and proven. Proved is the older form. Proven is a variant.
- Am Heritage Dict Usage Note: Prove has two past participles: proved and proven.
- Proved is the older form.
- Proven is a variant.
- The Middle English spellings of prove included preven, a form that died out in England but survived in Scotland, and the past participle proven, a form that probably rose by analogy with verbs like weave, woven and cleave, cloven.
- Proven was originally used in Scottish legal contexts, such as The jury ruled that the charges were not proven.
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Am Heritage Dict Usage Note:
Prove has two past participles: proved and proven. Proved is the older form. Proven is a variant. The Middle English spellings of prove included preven, a form that died out in England but survived in Scotland, and the past participle proven, a form that probably rose by analogy with verbs like weave,
Prove has two past participles: proved and proven. Proved is the older form. Proven is a variant. The Middle English spellings of prove included preven, a form that died out in England but survived in Scotland, and the past participle proven, a form that probably rose by analogy with verbs like weave,
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