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seguso
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:15 pm
Post subject: Tell one thing from another |
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Hello,
can the sentence "you can now tell X from Y more easily" be made
passive?
E.g. "X can now be TOLD from Y more easily". This does not sound very
well to me.  Thanks for any information.
Maurizio |
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Bob Cunningham
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:54 pm
Post subject: Re: Tell one thing from another |
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On 1 Aug 2005 09:15:39 -0700, "seguso"
<maurizio.colucci@gmail.com> said:
| Quote: | Hello,
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| Quote: | can the sentence "you can now tell X from Y more easily"
be made passive?
E.g. "X can now be TOLD from Y more easily". This does not
sound very well to me. Thanks for any information.
Maurizio
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How about "You'll find that X can be told from Y more
easily"?
Incidentally, "sound very well" doesn't sound very good.
See "good[3,adverb] at http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
for comments on usage.
Or you can think of "sound" as behaving like a copulative
verb, so that in "sound very good", "good" is an adjective. |
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Django Cat
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 11:27 pm
Post subject: Re: Tell one thing from another |
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On 1 Aug 2005 09:15:39 -0700, "seguso" <maurizio.colucci@gmail.com>
wrote:
| Quote: | Hello,
can the sentence "you can now tell X from Y more easily" be made
passive?
E.g. "X can now be TOLD from Y more easily". This does not sound very
well to me. Thanks for any information.
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Nope, that's a perfectly idiomatic use of the passive, that wouldn't
cause problems for native speakers.
DC |
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lhdbaby
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:42 pm
Post subject: Re: Tell one thing from another |
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Or, if you'd prefer, use ... "now can be distinguished ... more
clearly." |
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