R: Re:Degreesofvolitioninactivelanguages(wasRe:Chevraqis:asketch)

"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> It can only be grammatical when you have the proper intonation, and,
> in writing, punctuation:  "The horse, [caused to be] raced past the barn,
> fell down."
Ah!  That does make sense, and with the right intonation isn't even
ambiguous, altho it does still sound a bit peculiar to me.  I'd probably
use "The horse, which was raced past the barn, fell down".  I'd been
trying to interpret it as an active past tense, i.e., "The horse [which]
raced past the barn fell down"

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