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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7021268" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I was thinking about this, and I think the issue is the sentence structure.You are saying that &quot;...can see a dim...&quot; is the same as &quot;The creature’s location can be detected by any noise it makes or any tracks it leaves.&quot;You are changing the phrase &quot;can be&quot; to &quot;can&quot;. That's a significant difference.&nbsp; A better comparison would be to the phrase (ignoring tense)&quot;The room is misty but characters looking south you see a dim shape, it could be a statue.&quot;My english teacher would be disappointed that I don't remember my grammar diagramming so I could explain it better.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If you can think of a phrase that uses &quot;can&quot; and &quot;be&quot; together to declare certainty feel free to post it.&nbsp; In the meantimeA rectangle can be a square.In D&amp;D you can be a dwarf.People that post to this forum can be obtuse.All phrases that more closely match &quot;location can be detected&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7021268, member: 6801845"] I was thinking about this, and I think the issue is the sentence structure. You are saying that "...can see a dim..." is the same as "The creature’s location can be detected by any noise it makes or any tracks it leaves." You are changing the phrase "can be" to "can". That's a significant difference. A better comparison would be to the phrase (ignoring tense) "The room is misty but characters looking south you see a dim shape, [B][I]it could be[/I][/B] a statue." My english teacher would be disappointed that I don't remember my grammar diagramming so I could explain it better. :) If you can think of a phrase that uses "can" and "be" together to declare certainty feel free to post it. In the meantime A rectangle can be a square. In D&D you can be a dwarf. People that post to this forum can be obtuse. All phrases that more closely match "location can be detected". [/QUOTE]

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