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Mignon Fogarty. Podcaster. Language lover. NYT bestselling author. Quick & Dirty Tips founder.

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Joined February 2007
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If my memory is correct, you ignore the part in parentheses or between dashes, so you'd use "has been told."
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Now I'm imagining a poster for a horror movie called Water Dogs.
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