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Subject:
he was run over/he got run over
From:
Scott Woods <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:32:42 -0800
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List,
My previous message on this topic delivered itself before I had finished it.  Here is the complete message.
 
Recently, a student wrote "he got run over."  This seems to be a common way of expressing the passive.
 
Would you characterize this as a passive?  Would you analyze "run" as the verb of the sentence and "got" as a modal operating like "was" in a normally constructed (was run over) passive?  

Scott Woods  
 


      

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