I want to express simply that some time had elapsed. Is the following correct?
It was passed 10 minutes.
Are there any alternatives?
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I want to express simply that some time had elapsed. Is the following correct?
It was passed 10 minutes.
Are there any alternatives?
Best Answer
is the grammatically correct form. Another way to say it is:
There are undoubtedly other ways of noting the passage of a specific number of minutes, but these are the two that come immediately to my mind.
To use the past tenses, you can say:
Which form you choose depends on context. Your sentence has no context.