Posted by John Nichols on January 28, 2008 at 01:03:06 from 74.192.13.5 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: Grammar posted by John Lambert on January 27, 2008 at 19:58:23:
The flowers should be watered. If I take your argument to a logical conclusion, then you or someone else, say the gardener if you are the Queen of England, making the statement, would be added as: the flowers should be watered by you. In which case it has to be passive as the active is, you water the flowers. So I agree with the English grammar.
The other interesting element is labour, labor etc. Which should lead logically to hour and hor.
JMN