Re: active vs. passive voice, or epithet?

Subject: Re: active vs. passive voice, or epithet?
From: "Milan Davidovic" <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:54:17 -0400

On 3/31/08, kelly keck <kelly -dot- keck -at- imagine-one -dot- com> wrote:
> The term "epithet" is a new one on me too, Ned. I'd heard that
> construction described as a "complement" or "predicate adjective."

The Wikipedia entry for "epithet" makes interesting reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithet

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