Be + past participle of intransitive verb = perfect tense?
“The other pupil, just arrived from Gori, was the semi-psychotic Simon Ter-Petrossian, aged nineteen, soon to be known as “Kamo,” who had also spent his childhood joining in streetfights, “stealing fruit and my favourite activity—boxing!”
Hi. I think "who was" is omitted before the underlined part.
"Be + (intransitive verb) past participle " is an archaic form of perfect tense in English. In a relative clause, when be verb is used with some specific intransitive verb to form perfect tense, we can omit the relative pronoun and the verb be, but we can't do this kind of omission in a relative clause in any case with any intransitive verb. This is limited intransitive verbs, for example,
come
go
fall
arrive
reach
flee
grow
Question 1: Is my thinking right?
Question 2: Could you please give me a complete list of these specific intransitive verbs?
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zuotengdazuo Is my thinking right? You may be on to something. zuotengdazuo Could you please give me a complete list of these specific intransitive verbs?
- zuotengdazuo Is my thinking right?
- You may be on to something.
- zuotengdazuo Could you please give me a complete list of these specific intransitive verbs?
- I cannot.
- This is a topic for linguistic research.
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zuotengdazuoIs my thinking right?
You may be on to something.
zuotengdazuoCould you please give me a complete list of these specific intransitive verbs?
I cannot. This is a topic for linguistic research. You should be able to find such verbs in German, French, and Italian which take be as an auxiliary, and
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