Taylor wrote:
> > 3- use a trigger marker on verb's object to make it the subject of a
passive
> > statement:
> > Eat I apple
> > verb+1s apple+ACC
> > I eat an aplle
> > becomes:
> > Eat I apple
> > verb+1s apple+ACC+*TRIGGER*
> > An apple is eaten by me
>
> It seems that it would be better to call that focusing, rather than
> "passive". Passive is a function of a verb.
Well, these are tricks to *avoid* the use of the classical passive voice
(amo/amor - lyo/lyomai etc.)
> > 4- Future: I will eat an apple, I'm going to eat an
apple,
> > I'm eating an apple
>
> "I'm eating"? Why would that be combined with future?
Surely not a good example: here's one better(?):
Tonight I'm going to the cinema -
the structure is the present continuous, but what I'm describing is a future
action (is it right? If not, my English teacher has thaught me false things!
As my mum says - she's a teacher - teachers are always wrong!)
Luca Mangiat
email: mangiat@tin.it