19-Oct-2005, 12:43
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 Re: passive participles
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Originally Posted by JJM Ballantyne . . . 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. | Oh, I see. Thanks. 
"Am" only expresses the first person singular present tense form of "be."
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Originally Posted by JJM "loved" on its own only barely expresses a sense of "completed or past love." To be understood by an English speaker. | Agreed. And I'd say it expresses, "undergone", which certainly shares sematics with the passive voice, but it isn't the "passive"; i.e., a structure. |