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					Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac  I have another grammar question. One of our more annoying directors sent out a banal Thanksgiving e-mail last week which included this sentence:
 "Perhaps all of us can get passed the big dinner and look forward for the opportunities ahead to be grateful."
 
 Am I correct in thinking he should have used "past" instead of "passed"? Or is that a perfectly cromulent sentence?
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 Passed/past isn't the only grammar error in his sentence.
I would have said 
"Perhaps we can all get past the big dinner, and look forward to the opportunities for being grateful that lie ahead.