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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

please help me identify two sentences

Are the two foloing sentences passive voice? If so, why?

I'm well prepared.

I'm not finished with you.

thanks!!
  

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The answer to your question depends on how the answerer defines passive. As I is not the object of any action in the sentences, many think that the sentences are active and the verbs prepared and finished are adjectival. However, structurally the sentences are in the passive voice as both contain a form of the passive auxiliary (be) and a past participle (prepared, finished).

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  • The answer to your question depends on how the answerer defines passive.
  • As I is not the object of any action in the sentences, many think that the sentences are active and the verbs prepared and finished are adjectival.
  • However, structurally the sentences are in the passive voice as both contain a form of the passive auxiliary (be) and a past participle (prepared, finished).
  • I don't think it matters a whole lot which view you take.
  • Speakers of other languages often have difficulties with structures like yours when they are faced with the fact that one pair of words can have two totally different meanings: The door is closed at 9 o'clock.
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The answer to your question depends on how the answerer defines passive. As I is not the object of any action in the sentences, many think that the sentences are active and the verbs prepared and finished are adjectival. However, structurally the sentences are in the passive voice as both contain a form of the passive auxiliary (be) and a past participle (prepared, fin
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