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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Located

Hi. I had a student ask me,

The forest is located in China.

They asked why located has "ed" on the end.
I replied that it is because it is a passive sentence.

be + past participle.

The forest is located ( by people ) in China.

Is this correct?
  

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Or 'by ***'.

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AnonymousThey asked why located has "ed" on the end.
I replied that it is because it is a passive sentence.

be + past participle.

The forest is located ( by people ) in China.

Is this correct?
It's almost correct. To be more exact it's a passive sentence for which there is no plausible active form. That is, it's not natural to
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pseudo-passives.

Thanks for that, CJ.

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