17-Feb-2008, 16:55
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 Re: How to parse a sentence in the passive voice?
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Originally Posted by Mohammed Abu Risha  Whitemoon
In fact as I explained above, a sentence, syntactically, can be divided into:
Subject
and
Verb
and/or Object, Compliment, Adverbial
A predicate is not a function (Why? Cose of syntactically? Actually I don't know the meaning of syntactically.) and therefore cannot be used.
There is still another surprising point :) According to syntax, there is no one to one correspondence between the passive and the active. In other words, we cannot say at all that the active is the origin of the passive!(Maybe!) | Have a good time!
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