The verb lead makes led in the past tense and as a past participle. Writers often mistakenly use lead in these roles, perhaps due to erroneous analogy with the verb read, which is uninflected. Lead is of course the correct spelling for the malleable, bluish-white element used in pipes, solder, bullets, and paints.
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“Islamic Prayer, Led by Imam Daoudi” This is correct, in my opinion.
Apart from the unnecessary capitalization of the initial letters of “prayer” and “led”.
That depends on whether it’s a title.
I could see that applying to “Prayer”, but it seems to me that “led” should be lowercase regardless.
It’s “led by”, not “lead by”. If it was “lead by” it would sound wrong, because “lead” always rhymes with “deed”.
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This sentence certainly should include led. However the reasoning isn’t quite true, the word “lead” can sometimes rhyme with “fed”, as in the metal lead.
He means the verb “lead”, not the noun “lead”.
wrong!
He is right….
Unless of course good sir Daoudi benevolently provided the metal brackets holding the prayer chairs firmly to the ground.
It should be a lower case “p” in “prayer” and lower case “l” in “led”, otherwise you are quite correct.