In Chinese restaurants in the United States, it's standard to receive fortune cookies with your bill [1]. A fortune cookie is made from a round, flat piece of dough [2] that is folded over [3] in half and bent [4], like in the picture below. It's sweet and crunchy.
Each fortune cookie has a slip of paper [5] inside with a proverb, a piece of advice or a fortune [6] written on it, hence [7] the name, fortune cookie. On my last visit to an American Chinese restaurant, I received the following fortune:
The question in this fortune doesn't make sense [8]. How do you think it should be written? The answer is in the comments below.
[1] cuenta, [2] masa, [3] plegado, [4] doblado, [5] papelito, [6] predicción, [7] de ahÃ, [8] tener sentido
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ANSWER: The question should read:
"What is containED iN everything?"
First, the passive voice (which is formed by the verb "be" and the past participle) should be used when the subject receives the action: "is contained". Here, the subject is the question word "what".
Second, the preposition "in" should be used instead of the pronoun "it". We use "in" for INside an area. We can't use the pronoun "it" as an object here; an object isn't necessary in the passive voice. And we can't use "it" as a subject, because, as mentioned above, we already have the question word as the subject in this question.
So, do you agree that wisdom is contained in everything?
P.S. To learn more about the passive voice or question words subjects, check out the entry of the same name.
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