Actually the first sentence shows a loop-hole doesn&#x27;t it?<p>&gt; E-Prime, a prescriptive version of the English language, excludes all forms of the verb to be.<p>Doesn&#x27;t the part parenthesised in commas have a kind of implicit &#x27;is&#x27;?<p>For example E&#x27; is supposed to stop me saying things like &#x27;Terminator is a good film and is 2 hours long&#x27;, but I can say &#x27;Terminator, a good film, lasts for 2 hours&#x27;.