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Vts nair Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

He doesn't want to be heard calling his name

This means that he hate people calling his name or he hate being called his name. Am i right?
  

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No. But without more context, it is difficult to understand. There is too much ambiguity.

  • No.
  • But without more context, it is difficult to understand.
  • There is too much ambiguity.
  • Here is a similar sentence that is clearer: He doesn't want to be heard calling his friend a dirty stinking liar.
  • This means that he is calling his friend bad names, but he does not want anyone else to hear what he is saying.
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No. But without more context, it is difficult to understand. There is too much ambiguity.

Here is a similar sentence that is clearer:

He doesn't want to be heard calling his friend a dirty stinking liar.

This means that he is calling his friend bad names, but he does not want anyone else to hear what he is saying.
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Thank you. I appreciate your reply. Actually this was the real context. There is a guy called 'A'. but people always call him his aka "x" which he doesn't like. Now what you think were i right? if not please rephrase it.
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No, you were wrong - the sentence you wrote means "He doesn't want people to hear him calling out his own name."

The key to getting this right is the word "nickname".

Try:
He doesn't want anyone to use his nickname
He doesn't want to hear anyone using his nickname
He doesn't want to be called by his nickname
He doesn't want anybody to call him by his nickname
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Ok. That means this is completely wrong 'He doesn't want to be heard calling his moniker?'. Actually is this a meaningful sentence(out of this context) ?
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Just found the following Passive infinitive 'She likes to be seen wearing purple hair' (refer link http://www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/Green%20Level/G14%20Infinitives%20Passive.html). It means she likes other people seeing her while she wears purple hair. Like
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vts nairLike wise "He doesn't want to be heard calling his moniker" means that he doesn't want to hear other people calling his moniker.
No, he is the person who is doing the calling, not other people.

John does not want to be heard by others while he (John) is calling his moniker.
Susan likes to be seen by others while she (Susan) i
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If you want to be emphatic and include the act of his own hearing of someone else calling him by his nickname, then try, "He doesn't want to hear anyone calling him by his nickname."

If you don't want to focus on his hearing of such, then, as another post stated, "He doesn't want to be called by his nickname" is perfectly fine.
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Thank you. But one last time, "He doesn't want to be called by his nickname" please rephrase this for me...just want to get it's meaning.
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vts nair "He doesn't want to be called by his nickname" please rephrase this for me...just want to get it's meaning.
He does not want people to address him by his nickname.
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vts nairhe hate people calling his name or he hate being called his name.
Any of these will do:

He hates it when people call him that.
He hates it when people call him that name.
He hates it when people call him by that name.
He doesn't want to hear [people / anyone] call him [that / that name / by that name].
He doesn't like to hear [

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