Passed or Past

[MyPantsAreGreen]

My daughter loves designing notebook covers with slogans.

Which is correct?

"Follow your dreams past/passed mountains, past/passed deserts, past/passed rivers"

We've fallen out - I am thinking "passed" she says "past" !

It should be 'passed'

It's definitely 'past'. In your sentence, 'follow' is the verb. 'Past' is a preposition.

Your daughter's right. It's definitely past.

It should be 'passed'

You keep saying this Tessie and it doesn’t make it any less wrong. Aren’t you reading the thread?

Past. The trick is, can you replace the word with another of a similar type? Instead of past, try over or across - all prepositions. Does it make grammatical sense? Yes. Passed is past tense of the verb to pass. Replace it with another past tense verb eg, traversed, went. Does it make grammatical sense? No.

You've all got it wrong. Follow is somebody's name.

"Follow, your dreams passed mountains... all by themselves..."