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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: a good time was had by all
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 01:58:11 GMT
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In a previous article, ibirks@pratique.fr (Ivan) says:

>If HAVE, in English, can't be used in passive sentences, as the grammar
>books tell us, why can we say 'a good time was had by all'?
>
Because that is one of the many things we can (and do) say in spite of the 
grammar books' brave attempts to make us talk right (never "talk rightly", at 
least in this sense, at least in my dialect). 
>
>I know it is true for French, but is it really true for all languages?
>
Probably not.

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