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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Run or Ran?

A few years ago, my daughter and I were on a college visit, and the student tour guide kept using the phrase, "a student ran organization." Shouldn't it have been "a student RUN organization?
  

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Hi, Yes. This has been bothering you for a long time! Clive

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Hi,

Yes.

This has been bothering you for a long time! Emotion: smile

Clive
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The past tense implies that the organization no longer exists, or that students no longer run it.
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Perceiving this sentence as if I was there at the time of the visit, I will have to agree with you that it should be "student-run organization" to mean "run by students" with "run" being a past particple adjective. It does not apper to me that it has anything to do with whether it still exists or run by students. That's how I see it.
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Yes, it is not the past tense; it is passive voice. Its current management is determined by the finite verb:

It was a student-run organization last year.
It is a student-run organization this year.
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I hope your child wasn't planning to study English there. Emotion: smile
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My mistake, I was comparing it to:

I run the org. this year.

I ran the org. last year.
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