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Within hours??????
0 Help I am looking in to some language for a friend who is not English and she thought I could help her but I can't 02 br
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00 Within hours, local streets were reduced to chaos. 02 br
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00 Within = preposition 02 br
00 hours = a noun as it is a unit of time 02 br
00 local = is an adjective, deiscribing the streets 02 br
00 were = I am not sure on this is a past simple tense of be. 02 br
00 reduced = verb, as it is an action 02 br
00 to = preposition 02 br
00 chaos = is a noun (resulting action) 02 br
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00 Is this correct? I am not sure about within, reduced or chaos, any input would be great. Also were, but I am 90% on that. 0-
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00 Within hours, local streets were reduced to chaos. 02 br
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00 Within = preposition 02 br
00 hours = a noun as it is a unit of time 02 br
00 local = is an adjective, deiscribing the streets 02 br
00 were = I am not sure on this is a past simple tense of be. 02 br
00 reduced = verb, as it is an action 02 br
00 to = preposition 02 br
00 chaos = is a noun (resulting action) 02 br
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00 Is this correct? I am not sure about within, reduced or chaos, any input would be great. Also were, but I am 90% on that. 0-
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0 OK. 01 i 00 Were reduced 02 i 00 is in the passive voice, so 01 i 00 were 02 i 00 is the past of 01 i 00 be 02 i 00 and 01 i 00 reduced 02 i 00 is the past participle of 01 i 00 reduce 02 i 00 . 0-
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1 i 00 Within hours, local streets were reduced to chaos. 02 i 02 br
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00 A similar meaning (in active voice): 02 br
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00 Before long, local streets became chaotic. 0-
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00 A similar meaning (in active voice): 02 br
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00 Before long, local streets became chaotic. 0-
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0 Thank you for your help 02 br
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00 But in this case, being that "reduced" is a past participle, it is not functioning as an adjective? and if it isn't, is this sentences in the simple past tense? because the past participle if from a perfect tense is it not? 02 br
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00 I am sorry for the questions, but I lost and need guidance. 0-
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00 But in this case, being that "reduced" is a past participle, it is not functioning as an adjective? and if it isn't, is this sentences in the simple past tense? because the past participle if from a perfect tense is it not? 02 br
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00 I am sorry for the questions, but I lost and need guidance. 0-
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01 i 00 Local streets were reduced to cha
00 Within hours, local streets were reduced to chaos. 12 blockquote10 There are many cases in which an argument can be made for either the adjective or the passive verb. I like to consider whether the inclusion of the agent seems reasonable; if it does, I plump for the passive: 02 br
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01 i 00 Local streets were reduced to cha
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0 Thank you very much for your help, its 90% clears to me now it was 4% before your answers. 0-
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