 Re: advanced grammar problem - part 1 - help needed
1. All of a sudden there broke a bottle on the table
Let's think of "broke" or it's first form "break" as a verb that actually says that something "is" or "exists" - I mean, if something breaks it somehow has to exist at first.
What I am driving at is "The Change Of State". Maybe it's the change of state that makes this sentence wrong. Becasue as far as the verb "to break" is concerned, it somehow describes the existence - subconsciouslly. It's just my tortuous reasoning :D but I have to know if I'm completely wrong or not...
Maybe it's because of the change of state that is somehow included in the meaning of "to break" is responsible for making this sentence wrong.
Another example would me "There opened a/the door" - again, change of state.
But "Last week, there opened a movie called King Kong" - here, the meaning of "opened" is so much different than in "There opened a/the door". Here, the meaning is like "appeared".
And maybe this is the whole secret - one verb, and it can indicate the change of state but in the other sentence it indicates "appearance" which we already know to be correct in "there ins. structure"  |