Dec 12th, 2015, 04:11 am
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| Sue | | Join Date: Oct 8th, 2006 Location: Milan
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 Re: insult
No. An insult is an insult. You can't divide it into pieces. And the preposition which follows is to meaning directed at. Some examples : Lack of action by police over Birmingham pub bombings is an insult to the people of the city Today's ANC motion is an insult to the people of KwaZulu-Natal.
In this case, as you have a passive verb you could also let the preposition depend on that and use by, but of course the meaning changes - ie you are saying that the people consider it an insult: They were known as afrancesados, a term considered an insult by the people ... |
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