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#2 (permalink) Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:49 am Agreed/allowed |
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Hi Strawberry,
The expression it was allowed is not really used as a passive impersonal construction and in this sentence permission is not mentioned. The two of them agreed on this and so the acceptable expression is: It was agreed.
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#3 (permalink) Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:36 am Agreed/allowed |
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:oops: Hi,Alan Sorry,I can't understand your reply that "The expression it was allowed is not really used as a passive impersonal construction" .You mean that "it was allowed" is a fixed colloacation and it doesn't have practical meaning.Am I right? |
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#4 (permalink) Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:27 am Allowed |
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Hi Strawberry,
What I meant was that you can use allowed in a passive sense as for example: Smoking was not allowed in the dining area but it was allowed in the waiting room. It is not really used as an impersonal construction followed by a noun clause in the same way as you would say: It was agreed that ../It was stated that ... It was believed that ... and so on. You would have to write round the matter and say: Permission was given for them to ...or you could make the verb passive and use a personal pronoun as in: They were allowed to ...
Hope this is clearer.
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#5 (permalink) Sun Sep 02, 2007 16:31 pm Allowed |
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| Sorry, I typed wrong "diferrence". It must be "difference". |
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Dunghq New Member
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#6 (permalink) Sun Sep 02, 2007 19:07 pm It was agreed? |
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. Did you also have a question, dunghq? . |
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#7 (permalink) Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:29 am It was agreed? |
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Please tell me the difference between "agree" and "consent". Is it right if I use " It is consented" for this case ? Thank you |
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Dunghq New Member
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#8 (permalink) Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:57 am It was agreed? |
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Hi dunghq,
'Agree' and 'consent' both have the same sense of expressing willingness to do something or accept that it will take pace. The difference is in the use of both words. Of the two, 'consent' is more formal and doesn't usually stand alone but is used with the preposition 'to'. You would therefore say: I agree but I consent to that. That is probably why a construction like: It was consented doesn't work because the preposition 'to' is missing and in order to accommodate it, you would have to create an awkward construction.
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