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Kilimanjaro Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
is taken / was taken
Hi,
(pointing out a cutout of a famous person in a book) X says:
"This picture is taken from a newspaper"
or
"This picture was taken from a newspaper.
Does the first sentence give the same meaning as the second one does? If it does, is the structure peculiar to certain verbs , or is it applied to all verbs? How does the verb to be (is) function in the first sentence? The past or The present role?
Kili
(pointing out a cutout of a famous person in a book) X says:
"This picture is taken from a newspaper"
or
"This picture was taken from a newspaper.
Does the first sentence give the same meaning as the second one does? If it does, is the structure peculiar to certain verbs , or is it applied to all verbs? How does the verb to be (is) function in the first sentence? The past or The present role?
Kili
Top answer
The meanings are virtually identical. The picture is taken ... focuses on what sort of a picture it is, how it came to be here now, namely by taking it from a newspaper.
- The meanings are virtually identical.
- The picture is taken ...
- focuses on what sort of a picture it is, how it came to be here now, namely by taking it from a newspaper.
- taken assumes the role of adjective.
- The picture was taken ...
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The meanings are virtually identical.
The picture is taken ... focuses on what sort of a picture it is, how it came to be here now, namely by taking it from a newspaper. taken assumes the role of adjective.
The picture was taken ... focuses more on the event of cutting out the picture (in the past). taken keeps its normal role of a verb within a passive struc
The picture is taken ... focuses on what sort of a picture it is, how it came to be here now, namely by taking it from a newspaper. taken assumes the role of adjective.
The picture was taken ... focuses more on the event of cutting out the picture (in the past). taken keeps its normal role of a verb within a passive struc
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Hi Jim,
Can we say the "taken" in the first sentence functions almost as an adjective?
Can we say the "taken" in the first sentence functions almost as an adjective?
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Yes. It acts very much like an adjective.
(But that's not at all unusual for a past participle, as you know.)
CJ
(But that's not at all unusual for a past participle, as you know.)
CJ
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And i have a question for all of you
it is a correct we can say ( it was taken )
because we know (taken is a P.P)
we can’t after was to use a P.P
why here we use that verb
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