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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

The heat turned the milk sour.

Girl Genius is an ongoing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book series turned http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcomic, written and drawn by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Foglio and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaja_Foglio and published by their company, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_FoglioLLC under the imprint Airship Entertainment.

This is the first sentence explaining publication of the book Girl Genius.
And If I rephrase the underlined passive phrase into active sentence, it can be like the following.
1. an ongoing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book series (which was) turned http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcomic
-> 2. We turned an ongoing comic series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcomic.

So, I'd like to know whether the verb 'turn' can take a noun as objective-complement.
Thank you in advance for your help
  

Top answer

Please note that "turned" in the underlined part is not in the passive voice! It just means "became" or "changed into".

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  • Please note that "turned" in the underlined part is not in the passive voice!
  • It just means "became" or "changed into".
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Please note that "turned" in the underlined part is not in the passive voice!
It just means "became" or "changed into".

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The pattern in #2 is not possible. You can of course say "We turned an ongoing comic series into a webcomic".

The use of "turned" in the original is idiomatic, but it is not clear to me that it is necessarily passive in nature. It could be interpreted as "an ongoing comic book series (which) turned (into a) webcomic".
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park sang joon1. an ongoing comic book series (which has been) turned webcomic
Yes, as revised.
park sang joon-> 2. We turned an ongoing comic series webcomic .
No.
park sang joonSo, I'd like to know whether the verb 'turn' can take a noun as objective-complement.
Yes—as a predic
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Thank you, GPY, for your very useful opinion.Emotion: smile

The use of "turned" in the original is idiomatic
Then
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Thank you, Mr.Micawber, for your very helpful opinion. Emotion: smile

an ongoing comic book series (which has been) turned webcomi
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park sang joonCan I omit "which has been" in a relative clause?
Yes, you can usually (often? always?) omit "relative pronoun + 'be' verb".
park sang joonThen, why can't I use #2?
Too much elision!
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park sang joonThen, I'd like to know whether In original example, "webcomic" is a complement or object and what other verbs I can use like the verb "turn."
In "book series turned webcomic", it seems to me that the word "turned" is used in a special idiomatic way. I do not feel very confident about putting labels to the grammatical functions of the words in tha
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Thank you both for your continuing support. Emotion: smile

There is a bottle of milk gone bad.
How about the above sentence?
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park sang joonThere is a bottle of milk gone bad.How about the above sentence?
The problem is that it is an odd composition as it stands. It needs more:

There's a bottle of milk gone bad in the refrigerator.
The bottle of milk's gone bad.

Those sound fine and natural.
(Does milk still come in bottles?)
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Thank you, Mr.Micawber, for your continuing to answer. Emotion: smile

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