0
Sweazey Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Predicate Adjective, Verb Phrase, or both.....
In the following sentence is the word obsessed functioning as the predicate adjective/ subject compliment or is it a verb phrase, or could it be both.
He was obsessed.
He was obsessed.
Top answer
If 'obsessed' is followed 'by+some agent', it should be a past participle. Otherwise I cannot say which choice is better. We can use 'obsessed' as an attributive, we can say 'more obsessed' and we can say even 'unobsessed'.
- If 'obsessed' is followed 'by+some agent', it should be a past participle.
- Otherwise I cannot say which choice is better.
- We can use 'obsessed' as an attributive, we can say 'more obsessed' and we can say even 'unobsessed'.
- So now 'obsessed' can be taken as an adjective, though the origin was the past participle of 'obsess'.
- paco
Get the Weekly English Kit 📬
New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.
1 Answers
0
If 'obsessed' is followed 'by+some agent', it should be a past participle. Otherwise I cannot say which choice is better. We can use 'obsessed' as an attributive, we can say 'more obsessed' and we can say even 'unobsessed'. So now 'obsessed' can be taken as an adjective, though the origin was the past participle of 'obsess'.
paco
paco
0
Related Questions