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New2grammar Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

past participle with different meanings

0I feel sometimes a past participle delivers a different meaning depending on whether it's put before or after a noun. For example02br
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00I saw a door closed.02br
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00I saw a smashed potato02br
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00I saw a potato smashed.02br
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00The first of each example is stative to me, whereas, the second is passive (the act is occuring)02br
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00I believe some past particples don't have the passive meaning even though they placed after a noun.02br
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00look at the house buried in the landslide02br
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00Confusion: Does the verb contribute to the change in meaning?02br
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00Please help.02br
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0 Hi N2G02br 00You are asking good questions. English is a language of fixed phrases and meanings do change from verb to verb. 02br 00CB 0-

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  • 0 Hi N2G02br 00You are asking good questions.
  • English is a language of fixed phrases and meanings do change from verb to verb.
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0 Hi N2G02br
00You are asking good questions. English is a language of fixed phrases and meanings do change from verb to verb. What's more, some collocations don't have the same meaning even for native speakers.02br
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