Pretty much every author of any significance has been plagiarized at some point.
Shakespeare.
Stephenie Meyer
Megan McCafferty
Just about any textbook writer.
The Terminator
The Universe.
Many authors have been.
shakespeare stole 'anthony and cleopatra' from plutarch i think...
He feels deeply offended. The author spent many hours researching and creating his original work. To see it copied and used without permission or quotation marks greatly offends them.
The only reason that this sentence is not incomprehensible is because it has been plagiarized.
This sentence would be eligible for convertion into marks if it had not been plagiarized.
The teacher cried "foul" on discovering this sentence had been plagiarized.