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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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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't02br
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00Within hours, local streets were reduced to chaos.02br
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00Within = preposition02br
00hours = a noun as it is a unit of time02br
00local = is an adjective, deiscribing the streets02br
00were = I am not sure on this is a past simple tense of be.02br
00reduced = verb, as it is an action02br
00to = preposition02br
00chaos = is a noun (resulting action)02br
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00Is 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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0OK. 01i00Were reduced02i00 is in the passive voice, so01i00 were02i00 is the past of 01i00be02i00 and 01i00reduced 02i00is the past participle of 01i00reduce02i00.0-
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1i00Within hours, local streets were reduced to chaos.02i02br
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00A similar meaning (in active voice): 02br
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00Before long, local streets became chaotic.0-
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0 Thank you for your help02br
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00But 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?02br
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00I am sorry for the questions, but I lost and need guidance.0-
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00Within hours, local streets were reduced to chaos.12blockquote
10There 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:02br
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01i00Local 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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