Michael,

Pardon me, I misread your note. I think "lack" can NOT be used in the
passive (as you have elegantly demonstrated!).

Don

Kischner, Michael wrote:
> Don:
>
> "Lack" as a verb used only in passive voice?  The ability to understand that is totally lacked by me!
>
> MK
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> 	Subject: Re: Verb used only in passive voice
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> 	Michael,
> 	
> 	Might the verb you are lacking be "lack"?
> 	
> 	Don Stewart
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> 	Kischner, Michael wrote:
> 	>
> 	> Last year, on an assignment sheet, I asked students what verb is used
> 	> only in passive voice.  Now I can't remember the answer!  Can anybody
> 	> tell me what I was thinking?
> 	>
> 	> I think I got the information from Quirk and Greenbaum but now I can't
> 	> find it in their elaborate decimal system!
> 	>
> 	> Thank you.
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