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How to use this word(an easy one)?

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Reply Wed 21 Jun, 2006 01:08 am
nightmare
"A nightmare happened to me."is it right?
or"A nightmare occured to me last night."?
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Reply Wed 21 Jun, 2006 01:12 am
I had a nightmare last night.
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Reply Wed 21 Jun, 2006 06:37 am
Most English speakers would not use the passive voice.

Nightmares don't "happen to people"--people have nightmares.

"A nightmare occured to me" might be used if you were imagining all the dreadful things that might happen to you and you invented a monster nightmare.
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