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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
'Come' - passive form?
I sometimes get to see the verb come as if it was used in passive form (or at least in what I naively take it to be passive). Ex.:
- The crowd was ecstatic at the news just come of their team's victory.
- Such examples are easily come by, even in the works of the most prominent authors.
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The crowd was ecstatic at the news just come of their team's victory. -- This is an abbreviated way of saying "at the news that had just come", so it's not passive. Such examples are easily come by, even in the works of the most prominent authors.
- The crowd was ecstatic at the news just come of their team's victory.
- -- This is an abbreviated way of saying "at the news that had just come", so it's not passive.
- Such examples are easily come by, even in the works of the most prominent authors.
- -- This is passive, but the phrasal verb "come by" is, in this sense, transitive ("One can easily come by such examples" -> "Such examples are easily come by").
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The crowd was ecstatic at the news just come of their team's victory. -- This is an abbreviated way of saying "at the news that had just come", so it's not passive.
Such examples are easily come by, even in the works of the most prominent authors. -- This is passive, but the phrasal verb "come by" is, in this sense, transitive ("One can easily come by such example
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