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Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised o...
I only think it did in the past though.
pastacacioepepe
on May 6, 2023
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Then it should have been "This post comprised good points."
The "is" shouldn't be there. I might be wrong tho, I'm not a native speaker.
ghaff
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"This post is comprised of good points" is probably technically grammatical but it's an awful sentence. "This post made good points" works better. Better still would be getting more specific.
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