No1) Butterflies are first born[STRIKE]ed[/STRIKE] as eggs. Does it make any sense?
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2) Also, I've come across something like "she was born Josephine XXXX "
Does it mean that she was born to be called Josephine XXX?
thank you very much
No. The clue is in the term 'given name'; 'Josephine' is the name that was give to her at birth. Sentences that start 's/he was born <name>...' often (but not always) go on '... but was more widely known as <other-name>.' for example 'She was born Mary Ann Brailsford, but when she planted some apple pips that produced a unique and versatile cooking apple she came to wider notice as Mrs Bramley' or 'She was born Marie Skldowska, but is more widely known as the wife of Pierre Cure'.
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:up: It's a schizophrenic sort of verb - I imagine there may be a word for verb that can be both transitive and intrensitive,
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Yes, there is indeed: an ERGATIVE verb.
Middle verbs also.
are rather different.
Please read this extract from the Posting Guidelines:
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Rover
If I read you correctly, Rover, you are trying to imply that, given that my opinion is at odds with that of yours, I can't be a teacher, and, consequently, in keeping with your rules, I must state my non-teacher status clearly.
My postman has never heard of them.
No, my profile says my status, my profession, is something even Rover is not granted authorization to poke his nose into ; since I had to choose something, I went for "other". That is another story.
Is it not what we write in posts that matters, anyway?
Rover is clearly wrong in his point, What is the point in stating statuses any more?
To 5jj: You do not like to label grammar, but, apparently, you are in favor of labelling people. why is that so?