That’s what I teach my prospective
teachers. I call it the illegitimate child of the helping verb family because it
is stigmatized. To me
Janet
Sent: Friday
Subject: he was run over/he got
run over
List My previous message on this topic delivered itself
before I had finished it. Here is the complete message. Recently 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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