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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

passive voice

The two sides have signed several peace deals brokered by neighboring government.

My question is in front of 'brokered''
Why there's no to be. Such as :

It's brokered by neighboring government.

I found this kind of sentences confusing. They are either past tense or passive voice.

It would be great if I could get some other examples about this matter. Thanks.
  

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Anonymous The two sides have signed several peace deals brokered by neighboring government. "brokered" is not an inflected verb. The past participle is used as an adjective, or to introduce a clause following the noun it modifies Used as adjective: She wore a moth-eaten sweater.

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  • Anonymous The two sides have signed several peace deals brokered by neighboring government.
  • "brokered" is not an inflected verb.
  • The past participle is used as an adjective, or to introduce a clause following the noun it modifies Used as adjective: She wore a moth-eaten sweater.
  • He threw the half-eaten apple in the trash.
  • Don't cry over spilled milk.
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AnonymousThe two sides have signed several peace deals brokered by neighboring government.
"brokered" is not an inflected verb. The past participle is used as an adjective, or to introduce a clause following the noun it modifies

Used as adjective:
She wore a moth-eaten sweater.
He threw the half-eaten apple in the trash.
Don
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Normally, I think, this would be treated as an Adjective (or Adjectival) Clause and would include the relative pronoun.
Thus, "The two sides have signed several peace deals, that were brokered by a neighboring government."
The clause immediately follows the subject (deals). However, in your example, it was the complete sentence that is the subject of the brokering. The sentence could be
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