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Martha Kolln <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 3 May 2006 18:32:30 -0400
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>  Michael

Are you thinking of "rumor"?   We don't say rumored and rumoring, do we?

It's another, along with "beware," that doesn't belong in the verb category!

Martha






>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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