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Moon7296 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
dynamic and stative passive sentence
1. This kind of leak in a pipe is located by plumbers.
2. This library is located on the other side of the campus.
Q1) Is #2 also the passive sentence like #1? (I know some limit knowledge for passive forms. Aren't all passive sentences have "...by someone or something" even though it can be omited? but #2, it looks like it doesn't have "...by someone or something")
Q2) The source I found uses the term "dynamic(or actional) passive" for #1 and "stative(stational) passive" for #2. What's your opinion about that?
2. This library is located on the other side of the campus.
Q1) Is #2 also the passive sentence like #1? (I know some limit knowledge for passive forms. Aren't all passive sentences have "...by someone or something" even though it can be omited? but #2, it looks like it doesn't have "...by someone or something")
Q2) The source I found uses the term "dynamic(or actional) passive" for #1 and "stative(stational) passive" for #2. What's your opinion about that?
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Your example 2. is not passive: "located on the other side of the campus" is a locative complement . Just like a predicative complement it refers to the subject "this library", though it gives its location rather than describing or identifying it.
- Your example 2.
- is not passive: "located on the other side of the campus" is a locative complement .
- Just like a predicative complement it refers to the subject "this library", though it gives its location rather than describing or identifying it.
- g.
- "They were worried " where "worried" is a predicative complement.
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Your example 2. is not passive: "located on the other side of the campus" is a locative complement. Just like a predicative complement it refers to the subject "this library", though it gives its location rather than describing or identifying it.
Passives in the strict sense are called 'verbal passives' whereas those that simply describe a state arising from some prior event are ca
Passives in the strict sense are called 'verbal passives' whereas those that simply describe a state arising from some prior event are ca
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