 Re: passive participles
"I am angry (no passive voice here)
'angry' is not a participle, so that example doesn't stand.
He loved that dog (no passive voice here)
'loved' functions as a verb in that structure, not as a participle, so the example doesn't stand."
No, no, you've missed my point here which was to show that neither the word "am" nor the word "loved" carries any intrinsic passive voice meaning.
"Am" only expresses the first person singular present tense form of "be."
"loved" on its own only barely expresses a sense of "completed or past love." To be understood by an English speaker:
as a verb, it needs a subject (I loved);
as a "participle," an auxiliary verb (I have loved); and
as an adjective, something to modify, (our loved ones). |