fate

[Offroad]

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.

Thanks

 

[SoothingDave]

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."

 

[birdeen's call]

Right, if people could fate other people, fate would lose all meaning.