Re: Translation pattern of `to have'?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 2, 2001, 7:33 |
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J Matthew Pearson wrote:
> "A dog is had by me" sounds grammatical to me--but only under an unintended
> (and, in this context, rather dirty) reading of "have".
Honestly, that meaning hadn't even crossed my mind. In the sense of
"own" it seems grammatical to *me*, even if awkward.
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