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Matthew Wai Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Is it correct?
"Executed should be the man who bombed the mall yesterday."
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" The sentence order does not work. " We sometimes use this order poetically: Lucky is the man who wins the Lotto.
- " The sentence order does not work.
- " We sometimes use this order poetically: Lucky is the man who wins the Lotto.
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Matthew Wai"Executed should be the man who bombed the mall yesterday."The sentence order does not work.
We need, "The man who bombed the mall yesterday should be executed."
We sometimes use this order poetically: Lucky is the man who wins the Lotto.
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I'm not prepared to say that "should be" can never be used in this position.
Happy should be the man who has two wives. (Again, this is poetic!)
"Executed" is a different sort of adjective. You're talking about an action.
Someone should execute him.
He should be executed.
Happy should be the man who has two wives. (Again, this is poetic!)
"Executed" is a different sort of adjective. You're talking about an action.
Someone should execute him.
He should be executed.
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