Re: Active and Passive please help.
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 9:25 |
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En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:
> In a message dated 12/16/01 1:51:30 PM, fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:
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> << Or a passive, as in Spanish, "Se llama John", "He calls himself John"
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> Reflexive, of course, is what you mean, no? ~:D
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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.
Christophe.
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