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From: wilbaden@netcom.com (W.Baden)
Subject: Re: What does COMPRISED OF mean?
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W.Baden (myself) wrote hastily:
: Could anyone gave a sensible example of "comprised of"?

I have egg on my face.

In a thread on usage aggravations, "comprised of" was deprecated in favor
of "comprises".  So I wondered how the passive would be used.

Is this a word in which active and passive forms are equivalent?

