Re: Active and Passive please help.
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 12:57 |
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Quoting Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...>:
> Joe Hill sekalge:
> > My language has no passive sentences. I can't seem to translate it
> > was called into and active sentence... Can anyone help?
>
> If your language is (mostly) agglutinating, [...]
And you can use an agglutination if it isn't, as well. No
languague is 100% fusional or agglutinating or isolating,
which means that even if the language is predominantly one
type, you can have a grammatical feature using one of the
others.
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