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{{pe}}“[[Obligated]]” is only a word if you have an aversion to verbs: It started out life as a | {{pe}}“[[Obligated]]” is only a word if you have an aversion to verbs: It started out life as a [[verb]]. [[Mediocre lawyer|Fastidious draftspeople]] inevitably put it into the [[passive]] (I am ''[[obliged]]''), brusquely [[nominalisation|nominalised]] it into a [[noun]] (I am subject to an ''obligation'') and then inexpertly retrofitted it ''back'' to a [[verb]] again, ''still'' in the passive: (I am ''[[obligated]]''). | ||
For a ninja trick put it in the [[future perfect]] [[passive]]: “I shall have been obligated”. | For a ninja trick put it in the [[future perfect]] [[passive]]: “I shall have been obligated”. | ||
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“Obligated” is only a word if you have an aversion to verbs: It started out life as a verb. Fastidious draftspeople inevitably put it into the passive (I am obliged), brusquely nominalised it into a noun (I am subject to an obligation) and then inexpertly retrofitted it back to a verb again, still in the passive: (I am obligated).
For a ninja trick put it in the future perfect passive: “I shall have been obligated”.
There's a better, active, English verb: “must” which, if you are to find favour with people like me, you shall be obligated to effect the deployment of.
See also
- The future perfect’s not what it used to be expected to be going to have been.