Anonymous  +  329024 Wed, 14 Feb 07 03:57 AM Hey everyone, my teacher recently asked us a series of almost impossible questions and i was hoping you guys could help me out. Create a grammatically correct, single clause sentence using the same exact word as both an noun and a verb, and put it in the passive voice. any ideas? thanks. Anonymous Verbs, Clauses, Nouns

	CalifJim  +  329067 Wed, 14 Feb 07 05:59 AM The students sigh a heavy sigh. A fly cannot fly a plane. A spy lives two lives. The photographer prints the prints every morning. The thief pockets the money in his pockets. The policemen ticket the cars with red tickets. The drivers stop the bus at every bus stop. The hunter hides the hides from the game warden. Gardeners plant trees around the electric plant. The vintner bottles wine in big bottles. The passives will be intuitively obvious to the casual observer! CJ CalifJim Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member 22,465 "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche

	Pioussoul  +  329083 Wed, 14 Feb 07 06:32 AM  CalifJim wrote: The students sigh a heavy sigh. A fly cannot fly a plane. A spy lives two lives. The photographer prints the prints every morning. The thief pockets the money in his pockets. The policemen ticket the cars with red tickets. The drivers stop the bus at every bus stop. The hunter hides the hides from the game warden. Gardeners plant trees around the electric plant. The vintner bottles wine in big bottles. The passives will be intuitively obvious to the casual observer! CJ Well put! CJ. Here are a few tiny weeny coals that I'd like to carry to your Newcastle: 1. I dreamt a beyond-my-wildest-dream dream. 2. Don't trouble troubles (until troubles trouble you). 3. I used to live a dog-and-cat life.   Pioussoul Joined on Mon, Jan 22 2007 nowhere and everywhere Full Member 246 I have been captivated by and lost in a fool's paradise for too long to see the truth.

	CalifJim  +  329086 Wed, 14 Feb 07 06:37 AM using the same exact word 1.  dreamt - dream 2.   trouble troubles 3.   live - life CJ CalifJim

	Pioussoul  +  329088 Wed, 14 Feb 07 06:46 AM  CalifJim wrote: using the same exact word 1.  dreamt - dream 2.   trouble troubles 3.   live - life CJ Thanks, CJ, for your correction. Compared with you, a really keen observer, I'm only a casual amateur. After your comment,  my tiny weeny coals would go like this: 1. I dream a beyond-my-wildest-dream dream. 2. Don't trouble trouble (until trouble trouble you). 3. Pious lives tons of dog-and-cat lives. Pioussoul

	Grammar Geek  +  330089 Fri, 16 Feb 07 11:09 PM  CalifJim wrote: The passives will be intuitively obvious to the casual observer! CJ Jim, did we have the same linear algebra textbook? That line was famous at RPI. Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	CalifJim  +  330113 Sat, 17 Feb 07 12:09 AM No, Barbara, I don't think so!  I'm told that the phrase originated with the French mathematician Legendre, but I have no proof of it. One of the translators of his works into English is said to have remarked, "Whenever I came across As is intuitively obvious to the casual observer, followed by an equation, I knew it would be several days before I understood that equation!" Jim CalifJim