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FlagofFreedom Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Should "call" be "called" here?
Should "call" be "called" here?
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Like every other child, Hitler was born innocent, only to be raised, as were many children at the time, in a destructive fashion by his parents and later to make himself into a monster. He was the survivor of a machinery of annihilation that in turn-of-the-century Germany was called "child-rearing" and that I call "the concealed concentration camp of childhood," which is never allowed to be recognized for what it is.
Context:
Like every other child, Hitler was born innocent, only to be raised, as were many children at the time, in a destructive fashion by his parents and later to make himself into a monster. He was the survivor of a machinery of annihilation that in turn-of-the-century Germany was called "child-rearing" and that I call "the concealed concentration camp of childhood," which is never allowed to be recognized for what it is.
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Sorry for getting in your question, but I've just got another question in your text. He was the survivor of a machinery of annihilation that in turn-of-the-century Germany was called "child-rearing" Is 'was called' correct here?
- Sorry for getting in your question, but I've just got another question in your text.
- He was the survivor of a machinery of annihilation that in turn-of-the-century Germany was called "child-rearing" Is 'was called' correct here?
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Sorry for getting in your question, but I've just got another question in your text.
He was the survivor of a machinery of annihilation that in turn-of-the-century Germany was called "child-rearing"
Is 'was called' correct here?
He was the survivor of a machinery of annihilation that in turn-of-the-century Germany was called "child-rearing"
Is 'was called' correct here?
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Both was called and I call are correct in the context.
was called is correct because this is how it was called at the time, then, in the past.
I call is correct because I still call it that way now, today.
Read very carefully my postings here:
was called is correct because this is how it was called at the time, then, in the past.
I call is correct because I still call it that way now, today.
Read very carefully my postings here:
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