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Is it correct to say: " The day the speech was spoken " ?
Mar 4, 2015 1:48 PM
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You don't speak a speech. You either give or make it, so you could say either 'The day the speech was given' or 'The day the speech was made'.
March 4, 2015
The usual collocation is "to give a speech", so it would be better as "the day the speech was given".
March 4, 2015
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