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- 01-Dec-2011, 12:19 #1
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fate Dear teachers
Are these sentences OK?
He killed the landlord, fating us all to go to jail.
He fated her to live alone after he started taking drugs.
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- 01-Dec-2011, 12:31 #2
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Re: fate These seem strange to me.
Fate as a verb does not usually have another person as its subject. I don't fate you. He doesn't fate her. Fate just happens.
She may have been fated to live alone, but he did not "fate her."
- 01-Dec-2011, 12:51 #3
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Re: fate Right, if people could fate other people, fate would lose all meaning.
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