Which is correct, "has been proved" or "has been proven"?
I should address a court in a few days. Use of English language has deteriorated and I want to sound correct at my age.
Kindly enlighten me as to which would be both correct and formal enough for a courtroom.
Top answer
"Proved" is the older form, but as of now, "prove" has two competing past participles. Both are correct. I use "proved", and I recommend it in highly formal use in your context because it is unimpeachable, "proven" having arisen relatively recently as a sort of mistake by analogy with "woven" and the like.
- "Proved" is the older form, but as of now, "prove" has two competing past participles.
- Both are correct.
- I use "proved", and I recommend it in highly formal use in your context because it is unimpeachable, "proven" having arisen relatively recently as a sort of mistake by analogy with "woven" and the like.
- But bear in mind that a lot of the English that we take for granted now is the product of mistakes over the centuries.
- "Proven" is the only form as an adjective as in "a proven cure".
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"Proved" is the older form, but as of now, "prove" has two competing past participles. Both are correct. I use "proved", and I recommend it in highly formal use in your context because it is unimpeachable, "proven" having arisen relatively recently as a sort of mistake by analogy with "woven" and the like. But bear in mind that a lot of the English that we take for granted now is the product o
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