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Discover LudwigThe sentence 'I am bought' is not correct in written English
It would be better to use the past tense of buy, such as 'I was bought' or 'I have been bought'. For example: I have been bought a new bike for my birthday this year.
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In the same paragraph of the essay from which Mr. Cohen draws two quotations, we also find Emerson affirming that "there is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be".
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