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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

active and passiv voice

nothing will be gained by hurry
  

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One will gain nothing by hurry.

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One will gain nothing by hurry.
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In either the passive or the active, hurrying sounds more natural to me.
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Anonymous nothing will be gained by hurry
Another possibility: Hurry(ing) will gain nothing.

It's debatable whether you have a true active-passive pair here, though, because 'hurrying' is a non-agentive abstraction.

CJ
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Nothing will be gained by hurry
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One will gain nothing by hurry
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