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Bmojtaba Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Active or passive voice

EX. 'A bush firmly rooted in the hard ground'

Is it active voice or passive ?it means a bush was held by it's roots in the ground? or means a bush grew it's root in the hard ground?

thank you in advance
  

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'Rooted' is an adjective.

— Mister Micawber

  • 'Rooted' is an adjective.
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'Rooted' is an adjective.
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... a bush was held by it's its roots in the ground?
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Mister Micawber'Rooted' is an adjective.
what should i say when i want to mean 'a shrub grew its root somewhere'
(i mean simple past tense instead of the verb grew)
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A shrub grew somewhere.
A shrub put down its roots somewhere.
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Thank you, but I mean I want to make a simple past tense sentence using the verb root,

like ' shrubs will root in summer' (which is simple future tense/aspect )
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bmojtabaThank you, but I mean I want to make a simple past tense sentence using the verb root,like ' shrubs will root in summer'
Your original sentence did not look like a sentence at all because its components were oddly matched. These are more natural:

The shrub took root last summer.
The shrub firmly rooted itself in the hard ground.
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Mister MicawberbmojtabaThank you, but I mean I want to make a simple past tense sentence using the verb root,like ' shrubs will root in summer'Your original sentence did not look like a sentence at all because its components were oddly matched. These are more natural:The shrub took root last summer.The shrub firmly rooted itself in the hard ground.
I was lookin
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bmojtabawhy couldn't we say :'shrubs rooted somewhere ' and we should say 'shrubs took roots somewhere' instead
Neither sentence is very good; I was merely replacing your text with my verb, which I think is more natural. As I have already explained, your original sounded so strange that I didn't recognize it as a complete sentence.
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