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“[[Obligated]]” is only a word if you have an aversion to verbs: It started out life as a {{tag|verb}}, inevitably used in the {{tag|passive}} (I am ''[[obliged]]''), was brusquely [[nominalisation|nominalised]] into a {{tag|noun}} (I am subject to an ''obligation'') and then inexpertly retrofitted {{isdaprov|back}} to a {{tag|verb}} again, still in the passive (I am ''[[obligated]]'').  
“[[Obligated]]” is only a word if you have an aversion to verbs: It started out life as a {{tag|verb}}. [[Mediocre lawyer|Fastidious draftspeople]] inevitably put it into the {{tag|passive}} (I am ''[[obliged]]''), brusquely [[nominalisation|nominalised]] it into a {{tag|noun}} (I am subject to an ''obligation'') and then inexpertly retrofitted it{{isdaprov|back}} to a {{tag|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 [[Amwell J|me]], you shall be obligated to [[effect]] the deployment [[of]].
There's a better, active, English verb: “[[must]]” which, if you are to find favour with people like [[Amwell J|me]], you shall be obligated to [[effect]] the deployment [[of]].


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*The [[future perfect]]'s not what it used to be expected to be going to have been.


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