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months have passed vs months has passed

"Months have passed" is the proper phrasing. In English, when using the verb "to have" as an auxiliary verb to form the present perfect tense, it should be followed by the past participle of the main verb (in this case, "passed"). The subject "months" is plural, so it requires the plural form of the verb "have."
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Last updated: July 06, 2024

months have passed

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate that a period of time, in this case, months, has gone by.

Examples:

  • Months have passed since we last saw each other.
  • Several months have passed since the project started.
  • Many months have passed without any news from him.
  • How many months have passed since you moved here?
  • The months have passed quickly.
  • In the courtroom at Jerusalem, nearly four months have passed since the jurors retired...
  • 3 months have passed since school started.
  • As the months have passed, the cubs have grown into young adults.
  • Months have passed since the inquiry and the inconclusive fact-finding mission to Congo and since New York, yet there is still no sign of a political plan or a clear task.
  • About three months have passed since little Oscar brought light into his mother's life.
  • Well... the months have passed and the Lady Anne is queen and has given the King a child.
  • Two months have passed since he left for France.
  • Thirteen months have passed without any news.
  • Almost three months have passed since this Parliament approved a very important resolution.
  • However, many months have passed and Honduras still has no effective democracy.
  • With this in mind and given the fact that three months have passed since incidents occurred: 1.
  • Mr President, two months have passed since the tsunami tragedy.
  • Six months have passed since my divorce, and I have known none's enjoy your company much like yours yesterday.
  • Even though only six months have passed since the European parliament presented its opinion on the EIB's annual report for 1999, some changes have been implemented.
  • Since the last news of them take up Two months have passed.
  • And I am talking about the fact, ladies and gentlemen, that only 23 months have passed.
  • Almost ten months have passed since the euro was successfully introduced and the European Central Bank took over full operational responsibility for the single monetary policy.
  • Three months have passed since then. I have still not had a reply to these questions.
  • Six months have passed since the resolution was adopted and serious reasons for concern remain, which the recent Commission communication has only served to exacerbate.
  • Three months have passed already, and this has been going on since 1999.

months has passed

This phrase is incorrect in English.

  • The refusal of access order shall be lifted only after a period of three months has passed from the date of issue of the order and when the conditions in paragraphs 4 to 10 of Annex IX are met.
  • Any ship not meeting the criteria specified in this paragraph, after a period of 24 months has passed from the issue of the order, shall be permanently refused access to any port and anchorage within the Community.
  • This third refusal of access order may be lifted after a period of 24 months has passed from the issue of the order and only if:
  • 'A short 18 months has passed 'since Partially Deceased Syndrome sufferers were resettled.
  • A month has passed since the Nagashima Disaster.
  • About a month has passed after his surgery.
  • Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, more than a month has passed since Asia Bibi, a Catholic peasant woman from Pakistan, was convicted of blasphemy.
  • Today is 10 June, so less than a month has passed.
  • Only one month has passed since Hungarian extremists in fascist uniforms marched across the border into a peaceful Slovak town to the horror of local people.
  • More than a month has passed since these events, and five of the ten people who were arrested by judicial decree are still in detention, although no decisive and irrefutable evidence has been provided of their links with the terrorist movement.
  • Now that the two-month deadline has passed, can the Council provide me with the Member State's reply? 2.
  • Mr President, a month has already passed and the rapporteur of the amendment has only just been appointed.
  • Number of times for which the three month deadline has passed (Box No 3)
  • Now that the two-month deadline has passed, has Portugal complied with this request?
  • Mr President, a month has now passed since I drew Parliament's attention to the fact that on 16 September we adopted a resolution stating that a fact-finding mission would be sent to Vojvodina to report on acts of violence against national minorities.
  • If not, do you intend - now that a further month has passed since May - to take any initiatives to request the Spanish authorities no longer to block the process initiated by the Spanish judiciary?
  • A specific clause for the use of horse meat for food, which is overlooked in earlier legislation, was added, allowing the use of horse meat as long as a 6 month period has passed since non-injected medication.
  • What should be counted here is the number of times the three months deadline has passed during the reporting year, even if the request was sent during the preceding year or even if the reply is still not sent by the end of the reporting year.
  • I was most displeased at how the French Presidency treated the issue like a hot potato over the last six months and has now passed this hot potato to the Czech Presidency.
  • Three months passed, and uncle Achmed stayed.

Alternatives:

  • Months have passed

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