Ah so! So even if you're speaking about the future, the passive voice still naturally uses the past tense form: the road is to be plowed?

That DOES clear it up: The road was plowed. = The windows were jalousied. Hmmmm. Wait. In that construction, doesn't that still make jalousied a past tense verb -- like plowed? I think of jalousied as and adjective: Those are jalousied windows. Does the voice affect the tense? If I'm particularly de...

Hunh? I'm not pickin' up what you're puttin' down. :-) Glass isn't sliced like a thin sheet chipped or sawed off a fat chunk. A line is scored on the surface of a large sheet that's all one thickness, and then the desired piece is broken off along the score. But I'm also not conversant about passive...

You're absolutely right, they do operate on a crank -- they are fixed in plane by metal clips on the ends of each pane -- but I didn't know how boring a description you could stand (LOL). I'm actually in construction and have never heard another term for this type of window so I would be quite inter...

Very interesting, Slava. You see, the jalousied windows I am familiar with hide nothing since they are made of glass. Think of glass venetian blinds that are affixed to stationary sashes and you'll get the drift -- as well as the draft (they are good at letting breezes in during the summer, but not ...

I was reading a nice little murder mystery when the author said someone had slipped a piece of paper into the jalousie and I thought, "Boy, that'd be a great 'What's the Good Word?'" For me it's one of those words you just always grew up knowing (my grandmother's back room had jalousied wi...