Timeline for Is "entitled" a passive voice verb or adjective in "everyone is entitled to respect"?
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| Jan 27, 2023 at 3:02 | comment | added | John Lawler | How about We teach our children that the Constitution entitles everyone to respect and decency? Because we do, you know; or try. Some abstract entity does entitling; that was one of the things kings were good for. Granted, for many people entitled is just another adjective formed off a past participle; there are plenty of those. But for other people, the word conjures an agent entitler, and one wonders who or what that is. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 6:28 | comment | added | DW256 | @Barmar Those are vanishingly rare. Besides, the point is that the example given is awkward; were the subject replaced with something more commonly said to entitle people to something, it would agree with the original sense of the asker's passive construction just fine. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 6:12 | comment | added | Barmar | E.g. "Democrats like to entitle people with handouts." | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 6:11 | comment | added | Barmar | @DW256 When a law entitles someone to something, we can also say that the legislators (who passed the law) entitled them. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 4:17 | comment | added | DW256 | 'Someone' rarely entitles a person to 'something', rather an agreement, contract, law, etc. entitles: We teach our children that our laws have entitled everyone to respect and dignity. | |
| Feb 7, 2022 at 18:30 | comment | added | Qiandi Liu | :) Quick, easy, and to the point. Brilliant idea! Thanks. | |
| Feb 7, 2022 at 18:23 | history | edited | TonyK | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Removed superfluous 'been'
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| Feb 7, 2022 at 15:25 | history | answered | Acccumulation | CC BY-SA 4.0 |