keannu
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I definitely think belonged doesn't work here, but someone asked me it might do, and I couldn't explain well. I think for intransitive verbs, especially this kind of state-describing verbs, if they are used as a past participle, they mean a perfected action or state. So belonged would mean already fininshed possesed state, so it sounds weird.
So to mean the past state, "Which is the house that belonged to Mr.Song" will be proper, and for the present, the following with belonging is proper, but I need more of your explanation about the reason why belonged doesn't work here.
ex)Which is the house belonging(belonged) to Mr.Song?
So to mean the past state, "Which is the house that belonged to Mr.Song" will be proper, and for the present, the following with belonging is proper, but I need more of your explanation about the reason why belonged doesn't work here.
ex)Which is the house belonging(belonged) to Mr.Song?