RE: Active voice / passive voice studies

Subject: RE: Active voice / passive voice studies
From: "Michael West" <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- net -dot- au>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:08:55 +1000


Bonnie wrote:

> Technically, that is not an example of passive voice. "Flummoxed" is an
> adjective.

You'd better watch it -- I just
might flummox you.

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The NEW OXFORD Dictionary of ENGLISH

flummox verb
informal perplex (someone) greatly; bewilder.
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: probably of dialect origin; flummock to make untidy,
confuse is recorded in western counties and the north Midlands.

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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition


flum·mox (flùm¹eks) verb, transitive
flum·moxed, flum·mox·ing, flum·mox·es
Informal.
To confuse; perplex.



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