Verb Phrasings in Relationships
When a relationship between two entities can be expressed by an action word or
When specifying a phrasing, English Query provides the passive equivalent of the phrase. For example, specifying the verb phrasing Salespeople sell customers products also allows users to ask the
In general, use
Converting a Passive Voice Phrasing to an Active Voice Phrasing
Whenever a phrasing that has prepositional phrases is missing a
Note Pay close attention to prepositional phrases using the prepositions by and to. Frequently, the objects of these prepositions can be changed into subjects and indirect objects, respectively.
Using Multiple Instances of an Entity
In some cases, another instance of an entity is needed to create the desired phrasing (for example, persons migrate from countries to countries). In this case, two instances of the countries entity are needed. The join condition determines your choice about which instance of the countries entity goes with each preposition. For the first instance, the join condition is migration.from_cid~country.id. For the second instance, the join condition is migration.to_cid~country.id.
See Also
Defining Relationship Phrasings