Re: Active and Passive please help.

Padraic Brown wrote:
> > It might be a little hard, since "to be called" in the current meaning
is inherently passive in English.
>> However, other  languages have an active verb for naming things.
>
> Hunh? What's wrong with "I called it X" in your dialect?
Well, my dialect is nether-english (which is the english spoken by people
whose first language is Dutch). But you're right of course, "to call" in the
meaning of "to name" is also possible in the active voice in english.

Maarten

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