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Old 15-Oct-2003, 15:13
jwschang
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Originally Posted by RonBee
jwschang, that is quite a thorough explanation. It's worth reading twice. :)

I would add to that that "may be" has the sense of giving permission, and nobody is likely to give chickens permission to disappear.

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You're right. I guess it was converted into passive voice from the original active voice "Fresh chickens may disappear...".

I guess too that Hongkee Tong read that (the correct active voice sentence) in the HK papers, because over the past couple of years HK twice had a "chicken flu" epidemic of serious proportions resulting in a total culling of the birds in HK.
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