 Re: The book reads well.
Hello Casiopea
read = (intransitive verb) have qualities that affect understanding: to have particular characteristics that affect the way something is understood
This book reads well = This book has a quality that affects favourably the way it is understood.
Mediopassive voice is a passive voice in which the
* verb has stative meaning, and
* actor is not expressed.
I have a question here:
'What/Who is/are the actor(s) in the sentence that is not expressed? The readers? Could not be. The sentence tells us about a property of a given book.
I could not wade through all the posts you put in, so I am sorry if I ask you trivia. |