<div dir="ltr">Google says:<br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">"Although comprised of is an established standard for "</span><b style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">being composed or constituted of</b><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">," it is often liable to criticism and scrutiny. The correct version put forward by grammar guides is to use "composed of" or "comprises" such as "the cake is composed of flour and eggs" or "comprises flour and eggs."</span><br><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">I see! Thank you for letting me know...</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">John</span></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 1:17 AM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">>      > The burgers would be comprised of vat grown woolly mammoth meat,<br>
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Anton:<br>
>     You lost me at 'comprised of'.<br>
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On 2021-9-16 15:12, John Grigg via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
 > Well, all burger patties are comprised of something!<br>
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You mean "composed".<br>
«comprise» and «compose» are roughly reciprocals, not synonyms.<br>
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*\\*  Anton Sherwood  *\\*  <a href="http://www.bendwavy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.bendwavy.org</a><br>
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