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Mizansinha007 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Use of become

Sometimes I see this kind of sentences;
1. You become exited.
2. You become changed.
3.He becomes changed.
Are these correct sentences? And these structure is what?
Is it like, Sub + verb + adjective.

Thanks to teachers.
  

Top answer

1. You become exited. Good 2.

  • 1.
  • You become exited.
  • Good 2.
  • You become changed.
  • No.
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1. You become exited. Good
2. You become changed. No. This does not make sense. Say "You changed."
3.He becomes changed. No.

Become takes an object or adjective of state.

He became a teacher.
He becomes angry when you call him a heretic.
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mizansinha007Are these correct sentences?
Only the first is (if you spell excited correctly). The other should be You changed.

You become excited is a complex-intransitive clause (subject + predicator + predicative complement).
You change is an ordinary intransitive clause (sub
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( 1. You become excited . )
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Hi AlpheccaStarsEmotion: hi,
1. He became a teacher.
there is an object in the sentence above.Is it possible to transfer this sentence t
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mizansinha007Is it possible to transfer this sentence to "passive form"?
No. "Become" is intransitive, just like "be." It is followed by a complement, not an object.

He is a teacher.
He became a teacher because he loves children.
She will become a doctor when she graduates.

He is sick.
He became sick after he ate some bad meat.

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