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Re: ATEG Digest - 9 Mar 2015 to 10 Mar 2015 (#2015-19)
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Don Stewart <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:05:05 -0400
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Beth,

If you consider "surprised" to be adjectival, then doesn't that make "was"
a linking verb? In that case, there is no action verb, and thus no active
voice.

Don
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