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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
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The usual collocation is "to give a speech", so it would be better as "the day the speech was given".
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