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Laborious Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Past participles as adjectives

Hi,

Is the underlined part in the following sentence an adjective phrase, please? Do you consider the past participle

"controlled" an adjective in this sentence?


-The helicopters are controlled remotely.

  

Top answer

It looks like a passive construction in which you typically see "to be plus past participle". I am not an expert so Let's wait for an expert to shed some light.

— Jigneshbharati

  • It looks like a passive construction in which you typically see "to be plus past participle".
  • I am not an expert so Let's wait for an expert to shed some light.
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It looks like a passive construction in which you typically see "to be plus past participle". The main job of an adjective is to describe something (a noun) and clearly that's not the case here.I am not an expert so Let's wait for an expert to shed some light.
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The helicopters are controlled remotely.

The underlined expression is a passive verb phrase in which "controlled" is a verb past participle, not an adjective.

There are a few tests that can be performed to prove that it's a verb:

(1) Can the verb phrase take a by phrase? Yes: are controlled remotely by an operator is fin

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