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Sunsail Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Past perfect

Hello,
is this passive v3/past perfect ?

"...you feel valued and accepted by those around you.."

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Nothing that complicated. It's just a "verb of sense" followed by two adjective complements. The verb "to feel" is used in simple present tense.

  • Nothing that complicated.
  • It's just a "verb of sense" followed by two adjective complements.
  • The verb "to feel" is used in simple present tense.
  • The adjectives in this case are both past participles (verbals), which may be what threw you off.
  • You are clever and wise.
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Nothing that complicated. It's just a "verb of sense" followed by two adjective complements. The verb "to feel" is used in simple present tense. The adjectives in this case are both past participles (verbals), which may be what threw you off.

You are clever and wise. (Simple present, verb "to be," two adjective complements.)

Edit. "Valued" is also listed in the dicti
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sunsailis this passive v3/past perfect ?
No, because there is no had.

Past perfect is:

had valued
had accepted


Passive past perfect is:

had been valued
had been accepted


CJ
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Hello,
Does it have passive or active meaning?

It sounds like when I say " I feel valued"
I feel as if I have been valued by others.

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In the sense that everything you feel is due to stimuli coming in "passively" from the outside, not due to anything you do as an active agent, then yes, it's "passive", but it's not truly passive in the grammatical sense.
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sunsailDoes it have passive or active meaning?

It sounds like when I say " I feel valued"
I feel as if I have been valued by others.
That's the beauty of verbals as adjectives. They feel like verbs. But they're not. Active and passive don't apply.

There have been some special rules and categories dealing with this, and
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Hello,
Well,thanks for brief explanation,because I m making some translations,this is helpful for me.can I say that transitive verbs(which need an object) can be adjectives when they are in past perfect format(basically passive)
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That's sort of an oversimplification. What you call (past perfect format) is called "the past participle." It's used for several things, one of which is in forming the past perfect tense, together with the auxilliary verb, "had."

It's also used in forming the passive voice, together with the auxilliary verb "to be" (am, is, was, etc.). Only transitive verbs may be used in the pa
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sunsailcan I say that transitive verbs(which need an object) can be adjectives when they are in past perfect format(basically passive)
You are confusing the past perfect tense with the past participle form.

Infinitive: to know
Past participle: known

Past Perfect Tense: had known

The past partic

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