Thanks, Christine. This does make sense and the examples are really helpful. But I may let my students identify it as either for now since they will be very confused. I'm afraid it will confiirm for them that "they just can't get this grammar stuff."
Carol 


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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on behalf of Christine Reintjes
Sent: Thu 2/3/2005 12:25 PM
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Subject: Re: Past participle as Adjective or Verb
 
Carol,

I asked a similar question last year. One explanation I received was that
there are two possibilites with the passive construction.

The curtains were closed by the nurse. (Obviously passive voice)

When I entered, the curtains were closed. (More of a description unless the
action happened just as I entered)

I find this hard to explain to students who are just learning passive
construction and linking verbs.



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>Subject: Past participle as Adjective or Verb
>Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:47:01 -0500
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>Hi All
>I teach a basic grammar class for college freshmen, and the text that
>I'm using identifies the following sentence as S+LV+SC
>"Martin Lurther King Jr. was widely admired."
>To me "was admired" looks like a passive verb phrase similar to the
>following:
>"The children were frightened by the monster."
>Can someone help me with what I'm missing here?
>Thanks
>Carol
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