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Discover LudwigThe phrase "were died" is not correct or usable in written English.
When writing in the past tense, the correct phrase would be "died". Example: Many soldiers were killed in the Battle of Gettysburg, but many more were died in the battles that followed.
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were died
verb
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. or the sciences.
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Six people on the train were died.
During southern California's Del Mar meet, which ran from July through September, 17 horses were died during training of a morning or racing of an afternoon.
Mary, Queen of Scots and Napoleon, Stalin, Ned Kelly and many of the aristocrats who lost their heads during the French revolution have all been immortalised in this way, but the art has, as it were, died out, its function replaced by photography and, more recently, videos of departed loved ones.
Arthur Laurents, the playwright, screenwriter and director who wrote and ultimately transformed two of Broadway's landmark shows, "Gypsy" and "West Side Story," and created one of Hollywood's most well-known romances, "The Way We Were," died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan.
Seven patients were died.
Two patients were died due to a state of refractory septic shock.
Similar(18)
Several leaves were dying.
People were dying.
Even frogs were dying.
Legions were dying.
"We were dying.
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