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- From: fkhecken@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Frank Heckenbach)
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- Subject: Re: PROGRAMERS OF ANY LANGUAGE
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 11:03:04 GMT
- Organization: Student Pool, CSD., University of Erlangen
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- a07070@academic.csubak.edu writes:
- >In article <4l3a2l$753@gaia.ns.utk.edu>, mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:
- >>Charles DeRykus (ced@bcstec.ca.boeing.com) wrote:
- >>
- >>: You must admit though that it's lovely to be able to say either
- >>
- >>: "If you really love me, feed me artichokes".
- >>
- >>: or,
- >>
- >>: "Feed me artichokes if you really love me".
- >>
- >I believe it is called passive and active voice (High school English at its
- >finest) :-)
- > *** Rhett Garber ***
-
- Afaik, these are both active voice. Passive voice would be something like:
- "Let artichokes be fed to me if I am really loved by you." ;-)
- (Think of this sentence whatever you want...)
-
- Frank
-