 Re: How to parse a sentence in the passive voice?
Thank you Velimir
Let us take the following example:
The chair is broken.
Do you agree with me that here we are describing a STATE of the chair (that is "broken"? And, since a complement is used to describe a state can we take the risk and say that when a verb is in the passive, we take the auxiliary (is) as a linking verb and the past participle (broken) as a complement? |