Re: THEORY: more questions
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 27, 2003, 8:11 |
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In a message dated 11/26/2003 7:19:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
gwalla@DESPAMMED.COM writes:
>But what about
>4. A book was given (to me)
>(Recipient dropped or expressed with a prep. phrase)?
That would be the passive equivalent of "They gave a book to me," not a
passive of "They gave me a book." Hence, it's not relevant to an argument about
the status of the two objects in "They gave me a book."
Doug