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	“[[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]]'').		“[[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 ''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”.		For a ninja trick put it in the [[future perfect]] [[passive]]: “I shall have been obligated”.