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can I use 'costed' here?
I bought a pair of shoes the a few days back. It's price was 100 dollars. Can I say the following in this case?
"It costed me $100"
If not, how to convey the same meaning using the word "cost"?
4 de ene. de 2020 12:39
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No, you can't say that. If you want to say how much you paid for the pair of shoes, you'd say "It (or 'They') COST me $100". 'Costed' would be incorrect in this context.
The past simple of verb 'cost', in this sense, is the same as the present. If you look in a grammar book, you'll find the tenses of this verb listed as cost-cost-cost.
I paid $100 for these shoes = They cost me $100.
By the way, the past simple form 'costed' does exist, but this is a different meaning of the verb 'cost'. If you cost something, you do a calculation to estimate its likely cost. For example "We initially costed the project at £5000". This is more common in British English than in American English.
4 de enero de 2020
2
present...it costs me
Past .... it cost me.
Costed is not any correct form of an English word.
4 de enero de 2020
1
The past tense of the verb cost is exactly the same as the infinitive so you could only say cost here.
4 de enero de 2020
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Bengalí, Inglés
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