Hi
Could you please tell me how you find the following expression?
1- With 18 years being passed, I can’t seem to remember anything at all.
Tom
Hi Tom
It sounds very odd to me – especially the words being passed. Was there a reason that you chose being rather than having?
Some ideas:
Eighteen years later …
-OR-
After the passage of eighteen years,…
Amy
Hi Tom,
You want my honest opinion? I think it stinks. It’s also the classic dangling participle or unrelated participle because we don’t know who does the ‘passing’.
How about:
Now that 18 years have passed, I … ?
A
Hi,
Must we use a comma in this sentence? Is there any thread related to the comma’s usages here? Thanks!!! 
F.F
We don’t have a final sentence yet, FangFang. :lol: We’ll have to wait for Tom to decide what his final wording is going to be. But it does look like a comma is going to be needed in the final version. 
I believe this link is the website with comma information that Mr. Mic often recommends.
Amy
I take it that passed means died in British English. In N. A. the euphemism for died is passed away so “With 18 years having passed (,) I can’t seem to remember anything at all.” would be a good sentence.
Without looking at the meaning of Tom’s construction, “with 18 years being passed” or “with 18 years having passed” is The Prepositional Absolute Participial construction 
Hi Canada,
‘Pass away’ is also used in Br. Eng to mean die. I just can’t follow your line that it’s a ‘good’ sentence if it means ‘pass away’ or maybe I’m missing some subtle twist of humour?
A
A lot of thanks to everybody!
Now do you find the following constructions OK?
1- With 20 years having passed, I can’t seem to remember anything at all.
2- Despite 20 years having passed, I seem to remember everything dinstinctly.
Tom
PS Any amendments and suggestions would be highly appreciated.
1- After twenty years…
2 - Though …
?
It’s no surprise that after 20 years I can’t seem to remember anything at all.
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Hi Alan
If I understand your question, “With 18 years having passed…” has nothing to do with dying; it has to do with time passing.