Re: Active and Passive please help.
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 22:38 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Except that if it had a reflexive meaning, it would mean that the man chose
> himself a name, which is usually not the case. So the form may use a reflexive
> pronoun, but its meaning is not reflexive at all.
Which was actually my point, poorly worded tho it may have been. :-)
That the form used for reflexive could also be used for passive.
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