Liz, how would you or anyone diagram this sentence:

"I was born poor."

Is poor a subject complement?  I don't know what else it could be.

Christine in Baltimore 



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Subject: Re: Verb used only in passive voice

I think it is born. (As in "I was born on....")

Kischner, Michael wrote:

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>Last year, on an assignment sheet, I asked students what verb is used
>only in passive voice.  Now I can't remember the answer!  Can anybody
>tell me what I was thinking? 
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>I think I got the information from Quirk and Greenbaum but now I can't
>find it in their elaborate decimal system!
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