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I past by your house yesterday.

I passed by your house yesterday.

Past isn't a verb. The past tense and past participle of the verb to pass is passed.

We can use past as a noun: Don't think of the past; an adjective: The past week was warm; a preposition: We walked past the church; an adverb: The train went past.

You don't look as your mother.

You don't look like your mother.

As is a conjunction, and is usually followed by a noun or pronoun in the nominative case. Like isn't a conjunction, but an adjective which behaves like a preposition being followed by a noun or pronoun in the objective case.

Anne said to me, 'You're fool.'

Anne said to me, 'You're a fool.'

Anne said to me, 'You're a foolish.'

Anne said to me, 'You're foolish.'

Fool is a noun, and requires the article when we use it with the verb to be. Foolish is an adjective, and can't be used with the article after the verb to be.

A fool or a foolish person doesn't mean an insane person, but one who acts thoughtlessly. We tend to use silly or stupid instead of foolish in modern usage.

I spent the rest day at home

I spent the rest of the day at home.

Here, rest is a noun, and we can't use it as an adjective in the meaning of what's left.

The little girl sang beautifully.

The little girl sang beautiful.

We use an adverb, and not an adjective, to qualify a verb.

After verbs such as look, feel, sound, taste, smell use an adjective instead of an adverb: Sugar tastes sweet (not sweetly).

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