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Re: Active and Passive please help.

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Sunday, December 16, 2001, 21:44
In a message dated 12/16/01 12:19:01 PM, joe@WANTAGE.COM writes:

<< No, but I can make one...


silly thinking in English...

 >>

    As another option, though, you could use a general pronoun.  So, rather
than "He was called Mr. Sizzle", you could say "One called him Mr. Sizzle",
where "one" could be understood to be his parents, or the House Naming
Committee or any one.

-David

"Zi hiwejnat zodZaraDatsi pat Zi mirejsat dZaCajani sUlo."
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near."
                --Jim Morrison

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