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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

Chasten

the director was somewhat chastened by his recent flops (http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com)

Is the above a passive from "His recent flops chastened the director"?

  

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com) Is the above a passive from "His recent flops chastened the director"? Yes. Note that we would normally put the noun before the pronoun in a sentence: The director 's recent flops chastened him .

— CalifJim

  • com) Is the above a passive from "His recent flops chastened the director"?
  • Yes.
  • Note that we would normally put the noun before the pronoun in a sentence: The director 's recent flops chastened him .
  • 'chastened' can be viewed as adjectival as well: The director's recent flops made him feel somewhat chastened.
  • I think this latter interpretation matches more closely the intent of the writer.
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Anonymous

the director was somewhat chastened by his recent flops (http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com)

Is the above a passive from "His recent flops chastened the director"?

Yes.

Note that we would normally put the noun

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