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Old Apr 25, 2015, 2:49 pm
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Calchas
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Originally Posted by Bicostal
Grammatically the sentence is correct. The subject is the tootsies and they belonged to a women. The prepositional phrase on a plane refers to the location of the encounter, not the plane. Had the plane belonged to the women, the sentence would have read ....on a plane which ( or that) belonged to a women.
Ah but this is more interesting than it looks. Your reasoning only applies by the curious quirk that is "to belong" cannot be expressed in the passive voice, and therefore "belonged" cannot be a passive past participle.

However, it sounds rather quaint, like a deliberately poor translation, or one that might be used for effect in a fantasy novel.
This aeroplane is belonged to a woman.
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