Present perfect tense or passive voice
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Recently I found the following sentence 'Package has shipped'. It looks a little strange for me. If I see for instance 'He has shipped a package', it will not cause a doubt for me. It comprises both subject (he) and object (package). But how about the sentence of my concern? Is it complete? Is 'package' the subject or object in that case? How about the sentence: 'Parcel has been shipped' in comparison to the first one I mentioned?
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lukand ' The Parcel has been shipped . Yes, this sounds grammatical. You can consider these: He has shipped the package/parcel.
- lukand ' The Parcel has been shipped .
- Yes, this sounds grammatical.
- You can consider these: He has shipped the package/parcel.
- The parcel/package has been shipped.
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lukand'The Parcel has been shipped.
Yes, this sounds grammatical.
You can consider these:
He has shipped the package/parcel.
The parcel/package has been shipped.
0Someone else had the same problem and asked about it here at Englishforums backnin 2004!!
It's just an exceptional anomaly, a creative short form. It's not standard.
0lukandRecently I found the following sentence 'Package has shipped'.
Does the following seem strange too?
The bowl has broken.
It's the same pattern. 'break' and 'ship' are ergative verbs. Besides active and passive, these kinds of verbs also have another pattern (active in form, passive in meaning), thus:
Jerry has broken the
0lukand'Package has shipped'. It looks a little strange for me.
I think it's syntactically analogous to The soldiers marched and He marched the soldiers where the subject of the first sentence correspondents to the object of the second.
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