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Lupa.pinheiro Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Difference and/or similarity (syntactic relation)
Hi,
can someone tell me the difference and/or similarity between each paired examples (their syntactic relations):
1a) June is cooking dinner.
1 b)Dinner is cooking.
2a)Bill opened the door.
2b)The door opened.
3a)Ann is eating too much cake.
3b)Ann is overeating.
4a)Kate is running away from her family.
4b)Kate ran away yesterday.
5a)Mike talks all night long.
5b)Mike talked the night away.
Help please,.. ;^)
can someone tell me the difference and/or similarity between each paired examples (their syntactic relations):
1a) June is cooking dinner.
1 b)Dinner is cooking.
2a)Bill opened the door.
2b)The door opened.
3a)Ann is eating too much cake.
3b)Ann is overeating.
4a)Kate is running away from her family.
4b)Kate ran away yesterday.
5a)Mike talks all night long.
5b)Mike talked the night away.
Help please,.. ;^)
Top answer
1a. This is active. She actually does something 1b.
- 1a.
- This is active.
- She actually does something 1b.
- Dinner is cooking.
- This is a passive sentence.
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1a. This is active. She actually does something
1b. Dinner is cooking. This is a passive sentence.
3a. She is just at this moment eating (present progressive)
3b. She is no longer eating. But it is a condition in which she is in. She is overeating.
5a. Just a fact. Shakespeare won`t be too impressed...
5b. This seems to be a metaphor. Nobody talks long enou
1b. Dinner is cooking. This is a passive sentence.
3a. She is just at this moment eating (present progressive)
3b. She is no longer eating. But it is a condition in which she is in. She is overeating.
5a. Just a fact. Shakespeare won`t be too impressed...
5b. This seems to be a metaphor. Nobody talks long enou
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I have the feeling you are asking us to do your homework for you!
It's not clear to me what the focus of your task is, but
It's not clear to me what the focus of your task is, but
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Hi Jim,
no, I'm not asking you to do my homework. Yes, I have some tasks to work on and I got some questions about it. Because in my group we got some different answers for these sentences, then, how I trust the answers that I get from this forum I decided to check it.
In sentences 1 and 2 I found some ergative verbs (they can be used without a direct object).
In sentence 3 both ve
no, I'm not asking you to do my homework. Yes, I have some tasks to work on and I got some questions about it. Because in my group we got some different answers for these sentences, then, how I trust the answers that I get from this forum I decided to check it.
In sentences 1 and 2 I found some ergative verbs (they can be used without a direct object).
In sentence 3 both ve
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Hello, Lupa
You are right about the first two pairs of sentences. Sentences "b" in both pairs have ergative verbs.
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You are right about the first two pairs of sentences. Sentences "b" in both pairs have ergative verbs.
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Hey guys from PUC,
why don't you take part of the discussion?
It will make it richer!
Bye,
Lupa
why don't you take part of the discussion?
It will make it richer!
Bye,
Lupa
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