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chr0710
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Hi, I'm reading the hobbit and learning about verb tenses: I was just wondering if my analysis of this phrases is correctly done?
I put in parentheses to try to point out if it's a verb tense or an adjective.
The door opened(past simple) on to a tube-shaped (shaped = adjective, not past simple) hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with paneled (past simple or adjective?) walls, and floors tiled and carpeted (tiled + carpeted = adjectives?) , provided with polished (adjective) chairs.
“The tunnel wound (past simple) on and on, going (present continuous) fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill.
When you say Has been tiled. Is tiled then and adjective
How do you distinguish between when something as an adjective or a past tense form of a verb?
I put in parentheses to try to point out if it's a verb tense or an adjective.
The door opened(past simple) on to a tube-shaped (shaped = adjective, not past simple) hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with paneled (past simple or adjective?) walls, and floors tiled and carpeted (tiled + carpeted = adjectives?) , provided with polished (adjective) chairs.
“The tunnel wound (past simple) on and on, going (present continuous) fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill.
When you say Has been tiled. Is tiled then and adjective
How do you distinguish between when something as an adjective or a past tense form of a verb?