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Moon7296 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
(verb type) destroy/ break [ no passive voice?]
1. Country singer Joe Diffie said that the best year of his life was the one in which he lost his job at a foundry, got divorced, destroyed his pickup, and was audited by the IRS.
Q) In #1, I don't think "he" destroyed his pickup himself. Rather, his pickup truck was destroyed by something or some event.
Even so, the reason why the writer wrote the sentence like that is because of the verb type just like #2?
2. I broke my leg. (this doesn't mean I hurt my leg myself but was hurt by accident, right?)
Q) In #1, I don't think "he" destroyed his pickup himself. Rather, his pickup truck was destroyed by something or some event.
Even so, the reason why the writer wrote the sentence like that is because of the verb type just like #2?
2. I broke my leg. (this doesn't mean I hurt my leg myself but was hurt by accident, right?)
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In this context "destroyed his pickup" presumably means that he crashed it, and tends to imply that the crash was his own fault.
- In this context "destroyed his pickup" presumably means that he crashed it, and tends to imply that the crash was his own fault.
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In this context "destroyed his pickup" presumably means that he crashed it, and tends to imply that the crash was his own fault.
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